Starkware Founders: Ethereum Could Surpass Visa's Transaction Speeds Within Months
This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Uri Kolodny and Eli Ben-Sasson, the co-founders of Starkware, one of the leading Layer 2 scaling solutions for Ethereum. Post Merge, Ethereum continues t...
30 Sep 202257min
ConsenSys' Ben Edgington On The Future Of Ethereum After The Merge
This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Ben Edgington, the product owner of Teku, an Ethereum 2.0 client being developed at Consensys. It’s been a week since Ethereum switched from Proof-of-Wor...
23 Sep 202258min
Liquity's Robert Lauko On Censorship And Building A Fully Decentralized Stablecoin
This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Robert Lauko, founder & head of research at Liquity, an overcollateralized DeFi lending protocol and issuer of the LUSD stablecoin. Following the fallout...
19 Sep 20221h 11min
🎙 Stani Kulechov on Building a Social Network for Web3 so Users are Not the Product
This week on the Defiant Podcast we speak to Stani Kulechov, founder & CEO of Aave, one of the first lending protocols in the DeFi space. He has been around since the inception of DeFi, now Aave Labs ...
8 Sep 20221h 8min
Zcash's Zooko Says Crypto Users Must Have The Choice To Transact Privately
This week on The Defiant podcast we speak to Zooko, the founder of Zcash. Privacy remains one of the hottest issues in crypto after the U.S. Treasury’s recent move to sanction Tornado Cash. Zooko bel...
1 Sep 20221h 6min
Jake Chervinsky on Tornado Cash Sanctions: The Rightful Outrage and the Need to Further Decentralize DeFi
This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak to Jake Chervinsky, the executive vice president and head of policy at Blockchain Association, a non-profit trade association representing the crypto industry...
20 Aug 20221h 8min
0x's Will Warren On The Future Of DEXs And The Impact Of MEV
This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak Will Warren, founder and CEO of 0x labs, one of the oldest and largest decentralized exchanges. 0x API is currently the 5th largest DEX by trading volume bu...
4 Aug 20221h 8min
UMA's Hart Lambur Says The Current Market Crisis Is A Sales Pitch For DeFi
This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak to Hart Lambur, co-founder of the UMA protocol. UMA is an optimistic oracle on Ethereum that aims to record any knowable truth onto a blockchain. We discuss h...
27 Jul 20221h 1min
