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✊ Coinbase is ready to fight the SEC Mar 25, 2023

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The Weekly Recap is where The Defiant reporters discuss the week's hottest news and share further insights from our reports.

It goes live on our YouTube channel every Friday at 1200 ET.

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Dan Finlay Explains How MetaMask Will Become The Google of Web3 Mar 23, 2023

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This 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.

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Arbitrum Airdrop Is Confirmed! Mar 18, 2023

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The Weekly Recap is where The Defiant reporters discuss the week's hottest news and share further insights from our reports.

It goes live on our YouTube channel every Friday at 1200 ET.

Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with our latest videos!

How To Decentralize a Fortune 500 Company Mar 16, 2023

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This week on The Defiant podcast, Tegan Kline hosts Jesse Pollak, senior director of Engineering at Coinbase, Eva Beylin, the director of the Graph Foundation, and Ben Jones, the director of the Optimism Foundation, to give us a deep dive into the launch of Base, Coinbase's recently-launched Layer 2 blockchain.

Base is an Ethereum Layer two that offers a secure, low-cost, developer-friendly way for anyone anywhere to build decentralized applications.

In this episode, we talk about the evolution of Base from inside a Fortune 500 company, the importance of decentralized tools like the Graph and Optimism, and the importance of thinking positive sum, not zero-sum.

Jesse discusses decentralization inside a centralized company and how Coinbase plans to onboard millions of dapps and a billion users.

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web3 with a16z is a chart-topping podcast about the next generation of the internet, from a16z crypto. Click here to listen now.
This episode is brought to you by Orbs Layer-3. Trade DeFi like a pro using decentralized TWAP order type on SpookySwap, SpiritSwap, and Pangolin. Learn more: https://www.orbs.com/dtwap/

Why Is The Crypto Market Dumping?! Mar 13, 2023

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The Weekly Recap is where The Defiant reporters discuss the week's hottest news and share further insights from our reports.

It goes live on our YouTube channel every Friday at 1230 ET.

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Everything You Need To Know About Eigen Layer with Sreeram Kannan Mar 10, 2023

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This week on The Defiant Podcast, Tegan Kline chats with Sreeram Kannan, the founder of Eigen Layer and the director of the University of Washington's Blockchain Lab.

His research at UW focuses on distributed computing, information theory, queuing theory, networking, coding theory, and game theory of blockchain systems.

Eigen Layer is a proof of stake validation marketplace that reuses state capital and existing validation infrastructure. With Eigen Layer. Ethereum can enable permissionless and modular innovation across all blockchain layers.

Today, we dive into Sreeram's background in academia, how the blockchain space piqued his interest, and the hype around Eigen Layer.

But first, Sreeram is going to tell us exactly what he's up to at Eigen Layer and how he merges both a data availability layer and a restaking platform.

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Unstoppable Domains' Matthew Gould Unpacks Digital Identity in Web3 Mar 03, 2023

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This 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.

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110 Million Users Going On-chain With BASE Feb 26, 2023

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The Weekly Recap is where The Defiant reporters discuss the week's hottest news and share further insights from our reports.

It goes live on our YouTube channel every Friday at 1230 ET.

Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with our latest videos!

Synthetix, DeFi Summer 2, FTX, 3AC and Crystal Meth with Crypto OG Kain Warwick Feb 24, 2023

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This week on The Defiant Podcast, Tegan Kline chats with Kain Warwick, crypto OG and founder of Synthetix.

Synthetix is a new financial primitive enabling the creation of synthetic assets, offering unique derivatives and exposure to real-world assets on the blockchain.

Today, we dive into what's next for Synthetix with the latest V3 launch, and what will cause the next big leg up in DeFi - what we’re calling DeFi Summer 2.

We go on to discuss the differentiation between different perpetual products that exist in crypto, and how Synthetix made the decision to launch on a Layer 2 so quickly and burn all bridges behind them. And it gets pretty spicy with some tea on FTX and 3AC.

Before we dive into it, Kain tells us what he's been up to since we last spoke to him about what it takes to scale Ethereum.

DeFi, Fantom, Regulations, and the Challenges Of Being a Crypto Celebrity with Andre Cronje Feb 18, 2023

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This 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?

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