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The Defiant - DeFi PodcastEthereum's Next Moves: Insights from Tomasz Stańczak and the Ethereum FoundationIn this conversation, Camila Russo interviews Tomasz Stanczak, Co-Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation, discussing the evolution of Ethereum, addressing criticisms, and the foundation's strategic initiatives. They explore the importance of communication, the restructuring of the foundation, and the focus on scaling Ethereum through L1 and L2 dynamics. Tomasz shares insights on the vision for Ethereum as a global economy, balancing user needs with core values, and the foundation's treasury management and DeFi strategies. The conversation concludes with a look at future developments and milestones for Ethereum.Takeaways:Ethereum has evolved significantly since i...2025-06-0657 min
The Defiant - DeFi PodcastDive Into Lending, Borrowing, and Real World Assets with Maple Finance: Sid PowellLending and borrowing onchain has quickly become one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing sectors in Decentralized Finance (DeFi). Among the leaders in this space is Maple Finance, a platform that has already facilitated over $800M in assets, showcasing the growing adoption and practicality of tokenized private credit for institutions. By bridging the gap between traditional finance and decentralized systems, Maple Finance is demonstrating how institutions can leverage blockchain technology for more efficient and transparent lending solutions.In an insightful conversation, Camila Russo sat down with Maple Finance’s CEO, Sid Powell, to delve into the potential of...2025-04-1657 min
Infinite JungleIs ETH Gas or Sound Money? w/Camila RussoOn Ep. 88 of Infinite Jungle, Christine interviews Camila Russo, the founder of The Defiant and author of The Infinite Machine. Christine speaks with Camila about how she started The Defiant, a news site that specializes in covering major developments in decentralized finance and on-chain activity. Christine also speaks with Camila about her views on Ethereum’s value and recent organizational changes in the Ethereum Foundation. Christine and Camila discuss concerns about Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap and the value accrual mechanisms for ETH considering the migration of user activity to L2s.Guest:Name...2025-03-1948 min
The Defiant - DeFi PodcastZKsync 3.0: Elastic Chain and the Future of Scalable Web3 with Matter Labs’ Nana MurugesanNana Murugesan, President of Matter Labs and former VP of Business Development at Coinbase, joins Camila Russo in this week’s podcast to discuss the latest updates from ZKsync, including the recently launched Elastic Chain. He explains how ZKsync’s approach to interoperability and customization aims to make Web3 infrastructure as seamless as Web2, emphasizing the importance of user-friendly experiences for mainstream adoption. Nana also highlights Matter Labs' partnership with Buenos Aires to bring ZK-backed digital identity to millions of citizens, showcasing a promising model for government and Web3 collaboration. Finally, he shares upcoming milestones for ZKsync, with new chai...2024-10-2834 min
yWhalesFrom Terra Luna Crash to the Rise of #MemeCoins: A Deep Dive into Web3 Industry with Camila Russo | The DefiantIn this episode, Jay Steinback, yWhales CEO & Co-Founder, speaks with Camila Russo, founder of The Defiant and author of The Infinite Machine. As a veteran journalist and entrepreneur, Camila shares her insights on navigating the chaotic world of crypto and blockchain, as well as the need for a reliable source of information about projects, tokens, technology, and businesses. Jay and Camila explore the collapse of the Do Kwon Terra Luna ecosystem, how retail investors were affected, and whether regulation could have helped.
Camila also discusses how blockchain can be used to tokenize previously un-tokenizable items and create m...2023-05-2456 min
Holistic Investment w Constantin Kogan🎬 From DeFi Analysis to NFT Funded Hollywood Movie (w/ Camila Russo & Constantin Kogan)What a pleasure it was to have Camila Russo as a guest at Holistic Investments. Camila is a financial journalist, blockchain and cryptocurrency expert, and the founder of The Defiant – an independent media platform dedicated to covering the decentralized finance (DeFi) revolution. 📖She has made incredible contributions to the DeFi space, from launching The Defiant to authoring "The Infinite Machine", an in-depth exploration of Ethereum. 🌐During our interview, we discussed her insights into how DeFi could shape the future of finance, and why we should b...2023-03-2749 min
The Defiant - DeFi PodcastDan Finlay Explains How MetaMask Will Become The Google of Web3This week on The Defiant Podcast, Camila Russo chats with Dan Finlay, the co-founder of MetaMask - one of the leading Web3 wallets.
In our conversation, we dive into Dan’s background prior to co-founding MetaMask, where Dan sees MetaMask heading in the upcoming years, their privacy policies, a potential MASK token, and much more.
Dan shares his hopes and dreams for the next bull run. But first, Dan tells us the origin story of MetaMask.
Thanking our podcast sponsors:
This episode is brought to you by Silo Finance, the risk-isolated lending ma...2023-03-2349 min
The Defiant - DeFi PodcastUnstoppable Domains' Matthew Gould Unpacks Digital Identity in Web3This week on The Defiant Podcast, Camila Russo chats with Matthew Gould, the founder and CEO of Unstoppable Domains.
Unstoppable Domains is a service that facilitates the creation of blockchain-based domains that users own to build and verify their digital identity and login into applications, games, metaverses, and much more.
In our conversation, we unpack the concept of digital identity in Web3 and discuss where the market is headed.
But first, Matthew explains the importance of having a blockchain-based domain name service.
This episode is brought to you by:
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The Defiant - DeFi PodcastDeFi, Fantom, Regulations, and the Challenges Of Being a Crypto Celebrity with Andre CronjeThis week on The Defiant Podcast, Camila Russo chats with Andre Cronje, the co-founder of Fantom, a Layer 1 blockchain, and also the founder of Yearn Finance, one of the first yield aggregators in DeFi.
Andre is certainly a key figure in the DeFi space who, at times, has been seen as a rockstar, and also been criticized for his controversial takes.
We start by talking about Andre’s backstory: How did he get into crypto in the first place, and why did he decide to build in DeFi?
Thanking our podcast sponsors:
Meta...2023-02-181h 08
The ScoopCamila Russo on Ethereum's biggest origin storiesThe crypto bull market in 2017 inspired journalist Camila Russo to tell the story behind the creation of Ethereum.Russo's book, "The Infinite Machine," has caught the attention of Ridley Scott, whose production company Scott Free Productions has signed on to co-produce the film adaption. Ridley Scott is best known for helming such blockbusters as "Gladiator", "Alien", "Blade Runner", "Thelma & Louise", among many others.In this episode of The Scoop, Camila Russo recounts how her personal experience using crypto in South America showed her the advantages of decentralized systems and shares some striking revelations from time...2023-01-2540 min
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast🎙️Offchain Labs' A.J. Warner on Making Arbitrum the Leading Layer 2 Scaling Solution for EthereumThis week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with A.J. Warner, the Chief Strategy Officer at Offchain Labs, the builders of Arbitrum, one of the leading scaling solutions for Ethereum using Optimistic Rollups. We also welcome Tegan Kline, the co-founder of Edge Node, the initial team behind The Graph.
The Defiant’s Camila Russo and Tegan are co-hosting the podcast for the first time. Going forward, they will record shows together, and Tegan will also have her own Defiant podcast episodes.
Scaling is now a hot topic on Ethereum and throughout the blockchain ecosystem, as...2022-11-031h 04
Flywheel DeFiSetting the Standard in Crypto Journalism - Camila RussoCamila Russo, author of the Infinite Machine and Founder of The Defiant media platform joins the guys this week to discuss the state of crypto journalism, being neutral in a financial industry, and how she plans to grow the Defiant into a media powerhouse.~~~~Follow FlywheelpodTwitter: https://twitter.com/flywheelpodTelegram: https://t.me/flywheelpod~~~~Listen to Flywheelpod Wherever You Listen to Podcasts:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/34xXNO289naHrPB2h4uN4JApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...2022-09-211h 25
Blockchain Insider Podcast by 11:FS169. Insights: How can web3 change the film industry?
gm. Mauricio Magaldi and Cuy Sheffield are back this week for another deep dive, this time into all things film and web3.
We have already covered design and music as NFTs and how they change in this space, but what about perhaps the most popular and consumed form of art? How will film change in the world of web3, and has it already started?
The film industry and the Hollywood machine has been known as ‘a rich man’s playground’ - with power dynamics showing Hollywood often favours the rich, and more often that not - men...2022-08-3140 min
Base ProjectFinanció su PELÍCULA con una COLECCIÓN de NFTs - Análisis del caso de CAMILA RUSSO y su LIBROEn este capítulo hablamos sobre el caso de Camila Russo, autora del libro "The infinite Machine", quien se encuentra realizando la película de su libro gracias a que pudo ser financiada a través de la tecnología de Ethereum y una colección de NFTs.
Charla de Camila Russo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx3_a...
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Show Me The CryptoEpisode 68 - Camila Russo (Author of The Infinite Machine): The Infinite Machine: Creating the Ethereum MovieCamila Russo is our second-ever returning guest. Beyond being Chiefess at the Defiant, Camila is Executive Director of the world’s first Hollywood movie about Ethereum: The Infinite Machine. The Infinite Machine movie will be a screen adaptation of the book Camila wrote about Ethereum (published in 2020), which focuses on the human story behind the blockchain’s birth.
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Our "OG Fan" NFT is here! There will only ever be one of this version... and you can be the owner! https://opensea.io/collection/show-me-the-crypto/
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BanklessEthereum's Hollywood Moment | Camila RussoCamila Russo, founder of The Defiant, is bringing Ethereum to Hollywood with the feature film adaptation of her fantastic book "The Infinite Machine." This is the first project of its kind and is gaining speed, recently attaching Scott Free Productions (Ridley Scott's company) to produce. With these headwinds, The Infinite Machine movie is set to disrupt Hollywood in more ways than one. Reflecting on how she got to this point and the long road ahead, our biggest questions are... wen movie? Who's going to play Vitalik? And how can YOU get involved? ------2022-05-0447 min
BanklessEthereum's Hollywood Moment | Camila RussoCamila Russo, founder of The Defiant, is bringing Ethereum to Hollywood with the feature film adaptation of her fantastic book "The Infinite Machine." This is the first project of its kind and is gaining speed, recently attaching Scott Free Productions (Ridley Scott's company) to produce. With these headwinds, The Infinite Machine movie is set to disrupt Hollywood in more ways than one. Reflecting on how she got to this point and the long road ahead, our biggest questions are... wen movie? Who's going to play Vitalik? And how can YOU get involved? ------2022-05-0447 min
Growing Web3DeFi, Crypto, and the Media with Camila Russo from The DefiantIn this episode of the Growing Web3 podcast, we’re talking to Camila Russo. Camila is the founder of The Defiant, one of the biggest DeFi newsletters out there. She’s also the author of The Infinite Machine and has a ton of experience in DeFi and crypto. We talk about the evolution of Web3 media, the differences with traditional finance media, the role of journalists in the world of crypto, and how new projects can connect and engage with the media. Camila shares a few examples of DeFi projects that have u...2022-05-0231 min
The Defiant - DeFi PodcastMaking Magic - A Defiant Love Story with Robin Schmidt & Alp GasimovWe have a special podcast episode this week — a live conversation between Defiant founder Camila, our head of video Robin, and our editor Alp, recorded directly from The Defiant’s video studio in the Netherlands. Robin and Alp were one of the very first team members working with Camila in making the best DeFi and web3 content out there. In this episode we hear their story, how they came to work together and what moves them. We also go behind the scenes on their intense production process and schedule. Together with Camila, they also try to make sense of the...2022-04-121h 00
Based SpaceEP57: Camila Russo, Founder of The Defiant & Author of The Infinite MachineThis is an interview with Camila Russo, Founder of The Defiant & Author of “The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto Hackers is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum”, where we discuss Camila's journey writing the history of Ethereum, The Infinite Machine Movie & DAO, why Camila founded The Defiant, what The Defiant brings to DeFi, and Camila's thoughts on the future of crypto.
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Creadores WEB342 | Historias detrás: ¿quién es Camila Russo?Conoce más acerca de la vida de Camila, cómo piensa y sus ideas principales detrás de sus proyectos.
Visita stakefish para que empieces a hacer staking sin custodia, de manera segura
Ahorra con CUSD en Valora y obtén un APY seguro
Comunidad DeFi en español
Colección de NFTs en Open Sea
Redes sociales de Camila Russo
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The Defiant - DeFi PodcastBehind the Scenes of The Defiant with Robin and CamilaWelcome back to The Defiant podcast! After a brief break at the end of last year, we’re back stronger and better than ever to continue chatting with the greatest and brightest minds in DeFi and web3. Our first guest is our very own Robin Schmidt, aka SuperMassive. Robin leads multimedia at the Defiant and produces our video content, which has become known for raising the bar way beyond what’s expected not just from crypto videos, but from all of YouTube. If you haven’t already, check out and subscribe to our channel. I wanted to do the first...2022-01-171h 26
The Unstoppable Podcast110 - An Introduction to Decentralized Finance with Camila Russo from The DefiantThis episode was originally published on March 15, 2021.In this episode of The Unstoppable Podcast, we’re talking to Camila Russo, founder and editor of The Defiant newsletter, host of The Defiant podcast, and author of The Infinite Machine.We talk about how Camila originally got interested in crypto and some of her best resources for learning more about it. We cover her time in Argentina, and how the volatility of Argentina’s currency and markets make it a great real-life use case for crypto.We also discuss Camila’s book, The Infinite Machine, and wh...2021-12-2242 min
BanklessCamila Russo | Layer ZeroCamila Russo is the author of The Infinite Machine and founder of The Defiant, the DeFi-focused media company. Camila has a rich backstory, taking her from Chile to Argentina, Miami, Madrid, Chicago, and eventually New York. With an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for storytelling and journalism, Cami has earned her reputation as a leader in the space. As the Defiant expands into new territories of both data and content, Camila discusses her story of breaking into the world of journalism and finding crypto. As institutions flock to the space, it’s important to remember that stories an...2021-10-261h 34BanklessCamila Russo | Layer ZeroCamila Russo is the author of The Infinite Machine and founder of The Defiant, the DeFi-focused media company. Camila has a rich backstory, taking her from Chile to Argentina, Miami, Madrid, Chicago, and eventually New York. With an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for storytelling and journalism, Cami has earned her reputation as a leader in the space. As the Defiant expands into new territories of both data and content, Camila discusses her story of breaking into the world of journalism and finding crypto. As institutions flock to the space, it’s important to remember that stories an...2021-10-261h 34
Erika de la Vega - En Defensa PropiaCriptomonedas: ¿de qué nos estamos perdiendo? Con Camila Russo | Kit de Emergencia 41 | Erika de la VegaÚnete a la comunidad #EnDefensaPropia — tenemos contenido exclusivo: talleres, mentorías, Q&A con expertas y mucha gente bella comunidad.endefensapropia.com
Cuando escuchamos sobre criptomonedas, blockchains, nodos o Ethereum, parece que nos hablaran en otro idioma, y que nos estamos perdiendo el momento indicado para hacer la inversión de nuestras vidas.
Por eso quise invitar a este #KitDeEmergencia a Camila Russo, para que nos explique cómo funcionan las #criptomonedas, en dónde invertir, ¿debemos usar un broker o no? Para responder muchas de las dudas que todos tenemos y que nos frenan a la hor...2021-10-151h 06Erika de la Vega - En Defensa PropiaCriptomonedas: ¿de qué nos estamos perdiendo? Con Camila Russo | Kit de Emergencia 41 | Erika de la VegaÚnete a la comunidad #EnDefensaPropia — tenemos contenido exclusivo: talleres, mentorías, Q&A con expertas y mucha gente bella comunidad.endefensapropia.com
Cuando escuchamos sobre criptomonedas, blockchains, nodos o Ethereum, parece que nos hablaran en otro idioma, y que nos estamos perdiendo el momento indicado para hacer la inversión de nuestras vidas.
Por eso quise invitar a este #KitDeEmergencia a Camila Russo, para que nos explique cómo funcionan las #criptomonedas, en dónde invertir, ¿debemos usar un broker o no? Para responder muchas de las dudas que todos tenemos y que nos frenan a la hor...2021-10-151h 06Blockchain Insider Podcast by 11:FS141. News: Is USDC now rivalling Tether?
Simon Taylor and Cuy Sheffield are back this week to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain, Bitcoin and Crypto including:
FTX Crypto Exchange Valued at $18B in $900M Funding Round 2:12
Visa Crypto Cards Have Racked Up $1B in Spending in 2021 10:10
USDC Stablecoin Backer Circle to Go Public in $4.5B SPAC Deal 15:20
Square is making a hardware wallet for Bitcoin 23:44
How Axie Infinity Creates Work in the Metaverse 31:50
Simon and Cuy are joined by some fantastic guests:
Camila Russo, Founder of The Defiant
Sina Nader, COO FTX US
The Tweet of the Week...2021-07-2843 min
Show Me The CryptoEpisode 33 - Camila Russo (Founder of The Defiant): The Importance of Decentralized FinanceCamila Russo is founder of The Defiant and author of The Infinite Machine. In 2013, while working for Bloomberg in Argentina, Camila wrote an article about how Argentines were using Bitcoin to protect against currency controls and double-digit inflation. Since then, crypto has been on Camila's radar and in 2019 she founded The Defiant — a media company focused on decentralized finance — with the motto: essential content for the defying individual.
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Our "OG Fan" NFT is here! There will only ever be one of this version... and you can be the owner...2021-07-181h 12
Immigration Stories: We The Aliens Podcast53. The Infinite Crypto Machine (w/Camila Russo. Part 2)My guest this week is Camila Russo, a Chilean-American financial journalist. She cut her teeth at Bloomberg News. And in 2020 she founded The Defiant, a crypto news platform. She has also written a book, the first history of Ethereum, called The Infinite Machine. In this Part 2 of the conversation, Camila and I talk about how she made the transition from writing about the traditional markets to covering crypto and how she has since placed her bets on decentralized finance. Check out Part 1 of my conversation with Camila - where we talk about her journey coming t...2021-05-2233 min
Immigration Stories: We The Aliens Podcast52. From Bloomberg To Crypto (w/Camila Russo. Part 1)Camila Russo is a Chilean-American financial journalist. In 2020 she founded The Defiant, a media platform that has quickly become one of the most trusted and respected news sources in the world of decentralized finance, more known as crypto. You’ve heard of crypto. You’ve heard of Bitcoin. You’ve heard of Doge. If you’re into sports you’ve probably heard of the digital collectible sports cards. You may have even heard of the mysterious non-fungible tokens, the NFTs. It’s the cutting edge of finance and technology and to most people, it sounds like the intersection...2021-05-1735 min
The Unstoppable Podcast19 - An Introduction to Decentralized Finance with Camila Russo from The DefiantWe talk about how Camila originally got interested in crypto and some of her best resources for learning more about it. We cover her time in Argentina, and how the volatility of Argentina’s currency and markets make it a great real-life use case for crypto.We also discuss Camila’s book, The Infinite Machine, and what prompted her to write it, along with how she started The Defiant newsletter and how it grew. Camila talks about what’s new for The Defiant in 2021, and we touch on The Defiant podcast and some of its guests, like Mark C...2021-03-1542 min
The Unstoppable Podcast19 - An Introduction to Decentralized Finance with Camila Russo from The DefiantWe talk about how Camila originally got interested in crypto and some of her best resources for learning more about it. We cover her time in Argentina, and how the volatility of Argentina’s currency and markets make it a great real-life use case for crypto.We also discuss Camila’s book, The Infinite Machine, and what prompted her to write it, along with how she started The Defiant newsletter and how it grew. Camila talks about what’s new for The Defiant in 2021, and we touch on The Defiant podcast and some of its guests, like Mark C...2021-03-1542 min
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"I Don't Think We're in a Bubble. We Had a Bubble in ‘17; Now We're in a Movement:" Mike NovogratzIn this week’s episode we speak with Mike Novogratz, the CEO of Galaxy Digital. He started his career at Goldman Sachs and then led a macro hedge fund at Fortress, which was shuttered in 2015. He then went all-in on crypto, in part thanks to convincing from his college roommate Joe Lubin, and founded Galaxy Digital, an investment bank for digital assets. After grinding through the 2018 and 2019 bear market, Mike says he can finally breathe. He is convinced that Bitcoin is finally derisked.
While Bitcoin is firmly established as digital gold, to him, Ethereum is a venture be...2021-03-1249 min
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"We Were Idiots and We Were Poor; Then From Mid 2020 to Now, Suddenly, We're Right: " Ameen SoleimaniIn this week’s episode I interview Ameen Soleimani, one of the most prolific builders in Ethereum. He’s the CEO of SpankChain, a blockchain-based adult entertainment platform, the co-creator of MolochDAO, a DAO to fund Ethereum projects, and the co-founder of Reflexer Labs, which created RAI, a purely ether-backed stablecoin.
We talk about the need of a purely ETH -backed stablecoin, and how RAI is so cypherpunk it’s not only not backed by fiat, but it’s also not pegged to the dollar, it’s only pegged to itself, and stabilized by its own algorithm. It’s a pre...2021-03-051h 12
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"We Haven't Seen Anything Yet, So Hold Your Long-Term Bag:" Qiao WangIn this week’s podcast episode, we speak with long-time crypto investor Qiao Wang. Wang is a partner at the DeFi Alliance and former head of product at Messari. Unlike many Bitcoiners who get into crypto because of their ideological views, or Ethereans attracted by the possibility of building decentralized apps, Wang had been a quant trader for 10 years when he first learned about Bitcoin, and it was the asset’s volatility and potential upside what drew him in. Years later, he’s still actively trading.
We talk about his portfolio and which coins look the most promis...2021-02-1958 min
myconomytest"Es un paradigma distinto el que está creando Ethereum" Entrevista a Camila Russo"No me gusta la competencia entre el Bitcoin y el Ethereum, cada una tiene sus propias características" Camila Russo, Fundadora de Defiant Media y Autora del libro The Infinitive Machine, en myconomy Bitcoin Markets. Entrevista a Camila Russo en myconomy 16/02/20212021-02-1611 min
The Defiant - DeFi PodcastMark Cuban: "ETH Has an Advantage Over BTC as a Store of Value"In this week’s episode, we speak with Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks owner, billionaire investor and Shark Tank star. It’s been hard to pin down if Cuban is a crypto skeptic or believer. He has questioned the value of bitcoin and called its price surges a bubble, but he has also accepted crypto payments for his basketball team, and tweeted about using Aave and selling NFTs. You’ll have no doubt after listening to this interview where he stands: Cuban is a crypto bull, but more specifically a DeFi and Ethereum bull.
Big thanks to our sponso...2021-02-121h 04
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"For the First Time, You Can Buy a Piece of the Art, and a Piece of the Gallery:" MetaKovanIn this week’s podcast episode we interview MetaKovan, the pseudonymous investor who holds the largest known NFT collection in his Metapruse fund, which he leads with his (also pseudonymous partner) Twobadour. MetaKovan made waves in the surging NFT space after buying all 20 pieces of the Beeple collection at auction for $2.5M. In this interview, we dive into how exactly he managed to get his hands in the entire collection and what the bigger purpose of holding those pieces was.
MetaKovan didn’t buy the 20 pieces to just hold them in his wallet. Instead he and Twobadour built...2021-02-061h 08
The Defiant - DeFi PodcastCrypto Devs Are "Building a Life Raft For The World After Fiat Falls Apart:" Erik VoorheesIn today’s episode, I speak with Erik Voorhees, long-time crypto advocate and founder and CEO of ShapeShift. In this interview, he talks about how he was able to stop gathering information about his customers and take the exchange back to its roots, by leaning into DeFi. His plan is to create a platform that connects with all of the different DeFi applications, starting with decentralized exchanges.
Voorhees holds probably the most extreme view of anyone who has come on this podcast. He thinks we will see the collapse of the US dollar within our lifetime. He ar...2021-01-2957 min
OODAcastCamila Russo on Ethereum and the Future of Decentralized Finance (DeFi)This week's OODAcast features an interview with Camila Russo, the author of the book "The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum". Camila is also the founder of the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) site The Defiant, which tracks developments, emerging trends, and news in the fast moving DeFi space. In this interview, Camila shares how her experience covering fiat currency issues as a reporter for Bloomberg sparked her interest in Bitcoin and how she focused her attention on the Ethereum project early in its development. We discuss Camila's book and the...2021-01-2840 min
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"I'm Imagining a World Where Every Song Has an Investable Layer:" DJ 3LAUJustin Blau, better known as 3LAU, is a DJ who frequently plays at all the major festivals, he produces his own successful tracks, as well as remixes for pop stars like Rihanna and Katy Perry. He became interested in blockchain technology because it can provide a means for fans to provably to own and digital content and for artists to better monetize their work. He believes this innovation has the potential to revolutionize the music industry.2021-01-1546 min
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"I'm a Strong Believer in Blockchain; This is Just the Beginning:" Atari CEO Fred ChesniasIn this week’s episode I interview Fred Chesnias, the CEO of Atari. The video game company now has a token and plans to release a wallet and even an exchange. The token is an erc20, which Atari hopes will get used across any game, not just their own. With the token, users will be able to buy Atari NFTs, which include wearables to make a fashion statement in the metaverse. Fred believes blockchain and crypto can be a way to make it out of poverty, even leveraging video games themselves, reselling avatars and in-game items.
Beyond blockch...2021-01-0850 min
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"Bitcoin is the Most Honest Form of Money We've Ever Had:" Robert Sharratt of CrescoFinIn this week’s episode, I speak with Robert Sharratt, managing director at CrescoFin, a Swiss-regulated crypto firm which wants to become a bank alternative. He says Cresco’s objective is to replace banking with code. And while that sounds revolutionary, he’s the first to admit he’s in a “boring business.” He’s not building a yield farming platform that can get you 1,000x yield. He’s building a savings account that’s backed by real-world assets like invoices, for users to deposit fiat currency in exchange for returns of about 3%. Instead of Yolo-ing into untested smart contracts, he’s of...2020-12-241h 14
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"We Took Lessons From the Food Festival to Level Up the DeFi Experience," Bloq's Jeff GarzikIn today’s episode I talk with Jeff Garzik, the Bitcoin core developer turned DeFi builder. Jeff comes from leading Bloq, a blockchain infrastructure company focusing on enterprises. As much as decentralized finance is exciting and groundbreaking, he believes its lacking professionalism. Jeff believes DeFi needs to be easy for retail users and for institutional users, not just for crypto natives. With that goal in mind, Bloq is launching Vesper, a decentralized protocol for users to gain passive interest on their crypto. The innovation relative to other yield bouncers, is that users can pick a risk level and the pro...2020-12-1459 min
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"The Only Thing Where I Probably Agree With Arca is That GNO is Under-appreciated:" Gnosis' Stefan GeorgeIn this week’s episode I speak with Stefan George, the cofounder and CTO of Gnosis. Gnosis is one of the OG Ethereum projects. It was founded in 2015 by Stefan and Martin Koppelman as a prediction market platform on Ethereum and it’s now an ecosystem of financial applications, with a decentralized multi-sig wallet, called Gnosis Safe, and a decentralized exchange. Most recently, Gnosis announced it will join other DeFi projects and launch a DAO, where it would transfer a large chunk of the ether and GNO tokens in its treasury for the community to manage.
This trea...2020-12-071h 01
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"This Boom Feels Organic; Traffic's Not Coming Out of The Blue Like With ICOs in 2017:" Infura's EG GalanoIn this week’s episode I speak with E.G. Galano, cofounder of Infura, an infrastructure provider for Ethereum and other blockchains. Many Ethereum applications depend on Infura to run their nodes, and it became apparent why that’s problematic recently, when the service provider was having trouble connecting to the Ethereum blockchain, causing much of DeFi to break down. E.G. dives into the recent outage; he goes into what went wrong and what Infrua is doing to make sure it doesn’t happen again. He also talks about DeFi from the backstage perspective of an infrastructure provider, and wh...2020-11-3058 min
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"You Can Wake Up With an Idea for a Fund and Deploy it in Minutes:" Melon's Mona El IsaThis weeks podcast episode is with Mona El Isa, the co-founder of Melon, a decentralized asset management protocol. Mona tells the story of how she started her career at Goldman Sachs trading equities, derivatives, and all kinds of financial instruments, for a decade. She then went to work with one of Goldman’s hedge fund clients, where she managed a long-short portfolio. With all that experience and $20 million dollars from a seed investor, she ventured on her own to launch a hedge fund —but failed. The time, costs and administrative hassle were too much to handle even with an inve...2020-11-2351 min
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"I Do Believe Ethereum Will Flip Bitcoin in the Next Four Years:” Balancer's Fernando MartinelliIn this week’s episode, I speak with Illia Polosukhin, cofounder of the Near Protocol and Fernando Martinelli, co-founder and CEO of Balancer Labs. Near is one of the up and coming Layer 1 chains, Balancer is a prominent DeFi protocol and application on Ethereum that will now also be on Near and other blockchains. As for Near being labeled an “Ethereum Killer” Illia says Near is “not trying to kill anybody.” He thinks finance is just a stepping stone for all the use cases enabled by blockchains and that Near can be the place where those consumer apps are built. Fer...2020-11-161h 11
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"When Incentives Are Gone, What's Left? DeFi Gets Mixed Marks:" Sam Bankman-FriedIn this week’s interview, I speak with Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder and CEO of crypto liquidity provider Alameda Research and derivatives exchange FTX, and with Anatoly Yakovenko, the creator of the Solana blockchain. Bankman-Fried, recently announced the launch of Serum, a DEX built on the Solana blockchain. SBF has become known to be a ruthless trader, but he argues he’s simply using DeFi protocols for what they were made. For Anatoly, the end goal of Solana is to find the fastest and cheapest way to scale cryptography so that people are able to have ownership and participation in the...2020-11-091h 16
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"We've Been Creating Value for Instagram and TikTok With Very Little Actually Accruing to Us:" Trevor McFedriesThis week’s interview is with Trevor McFedries, who is behind Lil Miquela, a 19-year-old aspiring pop star with almost 3M Instagram followers, striking deals with Clavin Klein and Prada. But what’s more surprising is that she’s not human. She’s a computer-generated, character. The company that Trevor co-founded, called Brud, created her image and life story. It’s only fitting then that Lil Miquela, who lives in a digital world, will start to leverage digital tokens.
[Note: Trevor says in the interview a Miquela drop on SuperRare would happen on Oct. 30 or 31, but they’ve since cha...2020-11-0250 min
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"I'm Not Super Bullish on DeFi. We're Using This Tech to Enrich a Small Group of People:" James PrestwichThe founder of Summa speaks to The Defiant about why he has become disillusioned with decentralized finance. Stories of financial inclusion are much rarer than stories of somebody raising hundreds of millions in a token sale or people throwing money at the latest yield farming protocol. Still, he’s encouraged by the fact that it is much easier to launch a financial service than it ever has been before.2020-10-261h 15
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"Privacy Might be the Only Thing Left That Makes Web 3.0 a Viable Alternative:" Tor Bair of Secret FoundationIn this week’s podcast episode I interview Tor Bair, the founder of Secret Foundation, an organization which promotes privacy-preserving technologies, with a focus on Secret Network. Secret Network is a proof-of-stake, Cosmos-based blockchain, which has the capacity to process private transactions and, notably, private smart contracts.
Tor says that for Web3 to develop into the open and permissionless system its builders want, privacy should be at the core. His biggest fear is that in a Web3 future, intead of having single corporations control our data, governments will have the same access too. Without private blockchains, Web3 co...2020-10-1958 min
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"Fintech Can Be a 1.5 Bridge Into 2.0 DeFi:" 11:FS Co-Founder Simon TaylorI interviewed Simon Taylor. Simon has the rare quality of being very knowledgeable about decentralized finance but also about fintech. He is the co-founder at fintech consultancy firm, 11:FS, and he previously led blockchain research at Barclays. He also leads the excellent newsletter Fintech Brain Food. Simon points to a world where fintech and defi start to converge. All the capital and users in the traditional finance will have to bridged into crypto at some point and that bridge can be fintech.2020-10-1254 min
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"Fair Launch is a New Way for Founders to Express Themselves:" Gavin McDermott of IDEO CoLabHello Defiers! In this week’s interview, I spoke with Gavin McDermott. He's an investor at IDEO CoLab Ventures, the venture arm of design firm IDEO, and he’s one of the creators of Fair Launch Capital. While the name might suggest otherwise, Fair Launch Capital isn’t an investment firm, or at least it’s not a traditional investment firm. Instead, it gives startups no-strings-attached funding so that they can afford security audits and launch their projects in a safe way. They’re asked to consider paying it forward by returning at least the same amount they got but ideall...2020-10-0354 min
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"It Was Exciting But it Was Also Terrifying:" Dan Elitzer and Clinton Bembry on Yam Finance's BackstoryIn this week’s episode, I spoke with Dan Elitzer and Clinton Bembry, who were part of the founding team of Yam. Yam Finance is an experiment in rebasing cryptocurrencies, plus token incentives, plus full on-chain governance, plus a DAO-like treasury managed by token holders. It’s also testing the power of the emoji and opened the flood gates to meme-based DeFi tokens.
Dan and Clinton tell me the back story of how this crazy project was created, how the group loosely coalesced in a chat group and from there it was just 10 days until launch. They talk...2020-09-261h 02
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed TechnologiesCamila Russo: The Defiant – Laying Bare the Story of EthereumCamila Russo is a financial journalist, starting her career writing for Chile's largest national newspaper. She then spent 8 years at Bloomberg covering the Argentine market from Buenos Aires, the European stocks from Madrid, and analysed macro emerging markets moves for the Markets Live blog in New York. She is the founder of the Defiant and recently wrote and released a book on the foundations of Ethereum, “The Infinite Machine”. This tells the story of how 19-year-old coding genius Vitalik Buterin led a “ragtag group of feuding hackers with no business plan and no live product” to pioneer a whole...2020-09-221h 09
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"After DeFi, it’s NFTs and DAOs. We're Gathering Tinder:" Jihoz of Axie InfinityThis week’s interview is with Jeff Zirlin, aka Jihoz, growth lead at Axie Infinity. Axie is a digital game built on Ethereum, which involves cute animals going to battle against each other and taking control of your digital assets. The big vision is that as we increasingly live our lives in the digital world, digital assets will become more and more important and applications like Axie Infinity, will become more than just games, but places where people work and socialize. The key value that blockchains and NFT tokens add to this picture is that we’ll be able to a...2020-09-1959 min
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"It Turns Out Music Does Have Value. We've Been Pricing It Incorrectly For 20 Years:" RACHello Defiers! In this week’s interview, we chatted with Grammy Award-winning DJ Andre Anjos, aka RAC. Many have seen cryptocurrencies as a way to decentralize the financial system, thanks to the innovation of digital scarcity. RAC says that digital scarcity can also help disrupt the music industry. His experiments have so far showed how distributed networks can be the underlying infrastructure that helps artists can sell their creations directly to fans; how tokens on open markets can help more accurately price goods and help them benefit from secondary trading of their products; and now how digital assets can he...2020-09-121h 10
RipioTV PodcastRipioTV Podcast - #006 - Camila Russo (Periodista especializada en Blockchain)En este sexto episodio hablamos con Camila Russo (Periodista especializada en Blockchain) sobre la comunicación y difusión dentro del mundo de las criptomonedas y proyectos de blockchain en general, los desafíos que trae, y como superarlos. También hablamos sobre su reciente libro "The Infinite Machine" que cuenta la historia de Ethereum.
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The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"What We're Building is Very Big and We Should Have The Least Concentration Possible:" Aave's Stani KulechovStani Kulechov the founder and CEO of Aave. When we spoke Aave was the second-largest DeFi protocol, but in the days after our conversation, it rose to overtake MakerDAO and become the DeFi platform with the most assets held in its smart contracts, at over $1B in digital assets. It’s been an exponential rise for Aave, which launched just eight months ago and in that short time was able to climb the famous Defi Pulse Total Value Locked ranking to the top. It’s done so pushing DeFi forward by driving innovation in interest-generating tokens, flash loans and dele...2020-08-2959 min
Sin SucursalE26: Camila Russo - EthereumEn este episodio tenemos como invitada a Camila Russo autora de The Infinite Machine, el primer libro sobre la historia de Ethereum. También, es la fundadora de The Defiant, una plataforma de contenido sobre finanzas descentralizadas.
En la charla, repasamos toda la historia de Ethereum y cuales son sus implicancias como tecnología para habilitar nuevos modelos de negocios.
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Fede Tessore - El Podcast# 7 - En los Mercados - Camila Russo & Mariano SardansEn este episodio de "En los mercados" hablamos con Camila Russo del mundo de las Finanzas Descentralizadas y con Mariano Sardans de la figura del asesor financiero independiente y de la inmigración de argentinos al exterior.Además, hacemos un resumen de lo mas importante de la semana.Camila es periodista y trabajo ocho años en Bloomberg cubriendo mercados financieros de Argentina y Latinoamérica.También es escritora y acaba de lanzar su libro llamado “The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum” que tradu...2020-08-2835 min
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"It's not just about money; it's touching a very primal desire to connect with others:" ParaFi's Santiago RoelSantiago Roel is partner at ParaFi Capital, one of the most active investment funds in DeFi. Before going full crypto, Santiago worked at JPMorgan’s investment banking arm, and then invested in fintech and software at a venture fund. He now uses his more traditional VC frameworks to analyze open financial protocols and finds that even by those metrics, DeFi comes out ahead. We also talked about the seemingly crazy new DeFi meme tokens and Santiago says to not underestimate their value. Maybe part of the reason traders are pouring millions into these tokens comes from the human desire to...2020-08-251h 02
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"People Want me to be Popular, Not Necessarily Successful; That's the Trick with Personal Tokens:" Alex MasmejIn this week’s episode I speak with Alex Masmej, the first person to raise money by selling tokens not linked to any project, but linked to himself, in a sort of self-IPO. Much like shareholders taking dividends, Alex token holders can have a share of the entrepreneur’s future earnings. The money raised has helped him cover living expenses as he plans to move from Paris to San Francisco and start a tech company. He’s willing to try almost anything and see what sticks. In one of his experiments, he let ALEX holders vote on his daily habits...2020-08-1556 min
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"In DeFi My Money is Actually Mine. It's a Beautiful Concept But it Comes With Responsibilities:" Andre CronjeAndre Cronje is the developer of the yearn platform and YFI token. There’s this sort of mysticism around Andre: The solo genius builder who relentlessly releases code even if it hasn’t always been properly audited or tested. The DeFi wizard capable of turning a token which he himself claimed to be valueless to be worth thousands of dollars in a few days. He talks about the actual paralyzing fear that comes with building money protocol, the huge responsibility he feels, and how finger-pointing has caused him to quit the space before. But he says the drive to cont...2020-08-081h 15
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"We're at the Early Stages of a Truly Novel Structure That can Organize Humans and Money:" Olaf Carlson-WeeIn today’s episode, I speak with Polychain Capital founder Olaf Carlson-Wee. He was already telling Wired magazine about programmatic finance back in 2016, so it’s no surprise Olaf is very excited about the growth and promise of DeFi. He thinks smart contracts are enabling different ways of organizing people and capital, turning traditional corporations into internet sovereign corporations. He believes that given a compelling underlying product, liquidity mining will be an incredibly effective mechanism for accelerating network effects, which will be applicable to many different types of business models even beyond financial services.2020-08-0153 minThe Defiant - DeFi Podcast"Developers Will Wake Up to the Fact That There's a Toolkit to Build Full-Fledged Customized Chains:" Acala's Bette ChenIn this week’s epidose I speak with Bette Chen and Ruitao Su, who are building DeFi on Polkadot. While most of DeFi is being built on Etheruem, here is the team creating an entire new financial infrastructure on the decentralized network built by the Web3 Foundations and Parity Technologies —which was founded by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood. Their project called Acala, has been mostly known for its stablecoin, but they’re also building staking derivatives —a token that’s a derivative of staked DOT tokens and can be used in DeFi— and a DEX. Each one of these pieces is a...2020-07-2559 min
UnchainedCamila Russo on the Most Pivotal Moments in Ethereum's HistoryCamila Russo, founder of The Defiant and author of a new book on Ethereum, "The Infinite Machine," speaks about how currency controls in Argentina got her interested in crypto and explains why she chose to tell the Ethereum story. She discusses: how she started covering the crypto space what it was like living through currency controls in Argentina why she started focusing on Ethereum instead of Bitcoin what’s in her new book, The Infinite Machine the most pivotal moments in Ethereum’s history possible risks to Ethereum 2.0 because of delays whether competing protocols could take market share away...2020-07-211h 03UnchainedCamila Russo on the Most Pivotal Moments in Ethereum's HistoryCamila Russo, founder of The Defiant and author of a new book on Ethereum, "The Infinite Machine," speaks about how currency controls in Argentina got her interested in crypto and explains why she chose to tell the Ethereum story. She discusses: how she started covering the crypto space what it was like living through currency controls in Argentina why she started focusing on Ethereum instead of Bitcoin what’s in her new book, The Infinite Machine the most pivotal moments in Ethereum’s history possible risks to Ethereum 2.0 because of delays whether competing protocols could take market share away...2020-07-211h 03The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"Things Tend to Get Better. For Anyone Involved in Crypto, It's Obvious That This is 1,000x Better," 1kx's Lasse ClausenIn this week's episode, I speak with Lasse Clausen, founding partner of 1kx, one of the most active venture funds in DeFi. A typical VC question in the traditional tech space is it a 10x? Is it 10 times faster, better, cheaper? This concept has been dressed up very nicely as like, often with grand statements about making the world a better place, but really, Lasse says, VCs are subsidizing a market takeover. The real question they're asking is, can this become a national monopoly, where users are so locked in, that they have no choice but to use the...2020-07-1852 min
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Hidden ForcesThe Rise of Ethereum, the Future of DeFi, & the Transformation of Crypto Media | Camila RussoIn Episode 145 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Camila Russo, the host of the Defiant podcast and author of “The Infinite Machine,” the first official account of the rise of the Ethereum blockchain. The first 25 minutes of this conversation explores Camila’s experience working as a journalist in Argentina, how she got interested in covering cryptocurrencies, as well as her process for writing such an ambitious book. The rest of the episode deals mostly with the book itself, including a discussion about the ICO craze of 2017 and the impact that it’s had on Ethereum, it’s develope...2020-07-1358 min
Blockchain Summit Latam Podcast[12] Camila Russo de The DefiantHola, bienvenidos al Episodio N°12 del #bslPodcast. En esta oportunidad nos acompaña Camila Russo, fundadora de The Defiant un newsletter y podcast semanal que se especializa en temáticas asociadas a Decentralized Finance o DeFi por sus siglas en inglés, o también llamado Finanzas Descentralizadas o Abiertas.
Camila es chilena, periodista y cuenta con experiencia en Bloomberg Business cubriendo mercados financieros de Argentina y Latinoamérica.
Camila también es escritora y estrenará su libro The Infinite Machine este martes 14 de julio que trata sobre la historia de Ethereum.
En este epi...2020-07-131h 06The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"Basic Financial Services is a 21st-Century Fundamental Human Need:" OMG Network's Vansa ChatikavanijThis week’s interview is with Vansa Chatikavanij , the CEO of OMG Network. The Bangkok-based project formerly known as OmiseGo has spearheaded research and work on a scaling technology for Ethereum called Plasma. Scaling solutions will be key for Ethereum and therefore DeFi, to continue growing. The network is already at capacity, and gas prices are getting prohibitively high, especially for complex DeFi transactions.
In this interview we talk about OMG’s beginnings, the changes the project went through from conception until shipping, realizing that marketing should come after the project’s launch, and the different Ethereum scaling...2020-07-111h 00The Defiant - DeFi Podcast"All the Dizzying Ways People are Farming Yield is Proof of DeFi Composability's Success:" Ampleforth CTOIn this week’s interview, I spoke with Brandon Iles, the CTO of Ampleforth. Brandon is a former Google and Uber software engineer, and built his first crypto app together with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Today, he’s trying to rebuild the way money works.
For its huge ambitions, Ampleforth is a relatively little-known project. It wants to create an entirely new category of monetary assets — one that doesn’t have Bitcoin’s gold-like fixed supply, it doesn’t have Ether’s oil-like utility, it’s not fiat-backed like USDC, and it’s not collateralized like Dai. So what is it? It’s...2020-06-271h 09The Defiant - DeFi PodcastDEX Progress to be a "Landmark Event" Over the Summer: Framework VenturesThis week’s interview is with Michael Anderson and Vance Spencer, co-founders of crypto venture fund Framework Ventures. Michael and Vance live and breathe crypto. The live together, work together, and spend all their time analyzing crypto startups, and actively participating in the protocols they fund. It’s how they’ve become some of the deepest thinkers in the space. They talked about how the emergence of token-based business models in the past year has been a breakthrough for crypto, legitimizing the space as a new asset class. they discussed how they determine whether a protocol will accrue value.
...2020-06-191h 01
dlab Presents: Unblocked1. The Current State of DeFi with The Defiant's Camila Russodlab Program Manager Paul Saint-Donat chats with Camila Russo, founder of The Defiant (https://thedefiant.substack.com/) and well known cryptocurrency journalist on the current state of DeFi, interesting projects in the space, and more. 2020-06-1544 minThe Defiant - DeFi Podcast"The World is Crying for the Tech We're Building But We're Nowhere Near Ready:" Aragon's Luis CuendeThis week’s interview is with Aragon co-founder Luis Cuende. Aragon is a platform for users to create their own decentralized autonomous organizations. DAOS are organizations that have as much of its operations put into code as possible, and have smart contracts execute those operations. Owners hold tokens of the DAO, much like owners of a company hold shares, and make management decisions by voting with those tokens. They’re as transparent, immutable and secure as the blockchains they run on. Aragon wants to make it easy for anyone to build these futuristic companies.
Cuende started this proje...2020-06-1353 minThe Defiant - DeFi Podcast"There's the Opportunity to Make Really Complex Financial Instruments More Accessible”: Opyn's Alexis GaubaIn this week’s interview I talk with Alexis Gauba, the cofounder of Opyn. Alexis and her team built the first decentralized options market, on Ethereum. These instruments give investors a tool to protect against market volatility and Black Swan events, like hacks, bank runs, and big price crashes. In DeFi the risk is especially high, which explains why Opyn has taken off since its February launch.
Options are a key piece in traditional finance and make up the most liquid market in the world, with contracts representing trillions of dollars in value. Opyn contracts are not qu...2020-06-0554 minThe Defiant - DeFi PodcastBlockchain Devs Are Neglecting Data-Related Risks, Chainlink's Sergey Nazarov SaysThis week’s interview is with Sergey Nazarov, the cofounder of oracle provider Chainlink. The way blockchain applications get their data has proven to be crucial, as failures in those systems have been at the core of many of the latest attacks in decentralized finance. He says developers are currently underestimating the complexities of building data aggregators and oracle systems and says, the only reason these dangerous patterns are not as discussed is because the losses have not been Mt. Gox level. In this conversation Nazarov makes the case on why the Chainlink platform is meant to help avoid th...2020-05-301h 02
CriptohispanosCriptohispanos con Camila Russo de The DefiantTemporada 2 - Episodio Nº3:
Camila Russo, Fundadora de The Defiant, es una periodista chilena con experiencia en Bloomberg donde cubrió el mercado de Argentina durante los años 2009-2012, y luego cubriendo Latinoamérica desde Nueva York hasta el año 2018. Conoció y escribió su primera columna sobre Bitcoin en el año 2009, y ya para el 2015 escribía y cubría todo lo relacionado a Criptomonedas para Bloomberg.
Actualmente es fundadora de un newsletter sobre DeFi y además es una gran referencia a nivel global con respecto a Finanzas Descentralizadas, la que la ha llevado...2020-05-291h 08The Defiant - DeFi PodcastWinklevoss Twins Say Stablecoins Are Still Missing Their "Facebook Moment"This week's episode is an interview with Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. We talked bout everything from crypto in the pandemic, to Facebook's Libra and stablecoins, to DeFi and their ETH holdings.2020-05-211h 04The Defiant - DeFi PodcastAnyone Can Create Their Own ETF and Get Paid for It; This Wasn't Possible BeforeThis week’s interview is with Fernando Martinelli, co-founder and CEO of Balancer Labs. Balancer Labs is an AMM with a twist. Instead of liquidity providers having to deposit tokens in a pool at a pre-determined ratio together with a more liquid token (usually ETH), Balancer enables users to create token pools that have any ratio they want between their tokens. They can use any combination of tokens, and can even exclude ETH. The pools automatically rebalance when tokens’ price change, so that the same ratio is maintained. This way, liquidity providers are effectively creating something like a tokenized index...2020-05-1551 minThe Defiant - DeFi PodcastBlockchains are an Extinction-Level Event: Emin Gun SirerEmin Gun Sirer is a Cornell University computer science professor who has been deeply involved in the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities from the very early days. We talk about how he got started in the field, building a cryptocurrency long before Bitcoin. Gun, as friends call him, then turned his attention to Ethereum, notably catching the bug in The DAO, but failing to alert the community about it.
After years scrutinizing existing blockchains, he’s back at making one himself with AVA, whose testnet launched two weeks ago. He explains the inner workings of this network, the fi...2020-05-011h 12The Defiant - DeFi PodcastCrypto Was Made for Crises: MEW's Kosala HemachandraHello Defiers! This week’s interview is with MyEtherWallet founder and CEO Kosala Hemachandra. As the head of one of the most popular Ethereum interfaces, Kosala has a unique perspective on how the global pandemic has impacted activity. He also shared how coronavirus has disrupted his own life, and talks about what it’s like to run a company from his bedroom at his family’s home in Sri Lanka, on opposite timezones as the rest of his team. He also talks about how crypto was built for crises, about the importance of building a decentralized product —if it’s custodial, i...2020-04-2542 minThe Defiant - DeFi PodcastDecentralized Money Shouldn't be Traded on Centralized Exchanges: Loopring Founder Daniel WangIn this week’s episode we talk with Daniel Wang, CEO and founder of the Loopring protocol. The exchange built on the protocol launched a little over a month ago, with the goal of providing a non-custodial platform, meaning it allows users to keep control of their funds, with similar performance in throughput and cost as centralized exchanges. There’s mind boggling technology with funny names behind this protocol —zero-knowledge proofs, Snarks, Starks,— which Wang demystifies and explains.
We talked about how scalability is a relative and not an absolute measure. To him that means Ethereum 2.0, an upgrade...2020-04-1547 min
The Bitcoin PodcastThe Bitcoin Podcast #304-Camila Russo The Defiant NewsletterDee and Corey have a discussion that goes deep into the DeFi ecosystem and how decentralizing of all the things is a bit of a lie. Our guest Camila Russo who is the creator of The Defiant, a DeFi newsletter and is also a freelance Journalist in the tech industry. Camila has written a book on Ethereum coming out July 2020- The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-Hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum.2020-04-131h 18The Defiant - DeFi PodcastMakerDAO Founder Rune Christensen On DeFi's Biggest Test YetIn this week’s episode we speak with Rune Christensen, the founder of MakerDAO, the largest lending platform by assets in decentralized finance and the issuer of the Dai stablecoin. Rune has been in crypto since 2011 and is no stranger to volatility and crazy market conditions. Still, last month was the most shocking for him yet. On March 12th, MakerDAO’s mechanism to heal loans that become under-collateralized broke down amid the market crash, allowing one trader to run off with more than $4 million in free ether. He calls it Maker’s toughest test yet, and he believes the protoc...2020-04-0855 min
The Block ExperienceCamila Russo - Ethereum The Infinite Machine & The impact of BlockchainPart 1 of this week's podcast is the first part of my chat I had with Camila Russo, an Ex Bloomberg reporter who is now full time in crypto and writing a book with Harper Collins on Ethereum. We had a chat about how she has seen first hand the struggles with inflation rates in third world countries and the impact Defi and blockchain has had on these parts of the world. We also took a dive into how has it been writing a book on such a volatile and constantly changing topic.2020-03-1117 min
The Delphi PodcastCamila Russo: A Deep Dive Into Ethereum’s InceptionOn this episode, Host Tom Shaughnessy is joined by Camila Russo, founder of the Ethereum based newsletter The Defiant and author of the coming book on the birth of Ethereum titled, The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum. We dive into why Camila decided to research Ethereum's early life, how she has been tirelessly researching the protocol for months and what to expect from her new book.
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Everyone has heard of Bitcoin, but few know about the se...2020-02-0434 min
LunaticoinL46: El Principio de Ethereum con Camila Russo¿Sabes cómo comenzó Ethereum?¿Sabes qué fue lo que unió a sus 8 fundadores?¿Y lo que los separó? Hablo con Camila Russo, periodista, creadora del blog The Defiant y escritora del libro sobre la historia de Ethereum: The Infinite Machine. Con ella repasamos cómo se fraguó el inicio de ETH y cómo de sorprendente y accidentado fue el primer año del proyecto. Prepárate para descubrir que detrás de cada fundador de Ethereum hay un Bitcoiner.2020-01-161h 27
Ethereum Community SeriesCamila RussoCamila Russo is a financial journalist who's writing a book on the early days of Ethereum. She previously worked for Bloomberg in New York, Madrid and Buenos Aires.
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De Kobe Show#52 – Camila RussoCamila Russo is a financial journalist who's writing a book on the early days of Ethereum. She previously worked for Bloomberg in New York, Madrid and Buenos Aires.2019-06-121h 03
Blockland ClevelandBill Talks To Camila Russo About Block Chain In ClevelandBill talks to Camila Russo, markets and crypto reporter for Bloomberg Business in New York, about block chain technology and what it could mean for the city of Cleveland.2018-08-3009 min