DeFi Podcasts

TN Lee is the founder of Pendle Finance - a DeFi platform that enables users to tokenize and trade future yield on Ethereum assets. In this podcast, we explore the fundamentals of Pendle Finance, providing a comprehensive understanding of one of DeFi's most complex and innovative products.

Tomer Weller is the VP of Product at Stellar, one of the earliest alternative Layer 1 chains that existed before Ethereum. Stellar recently launched Soroban, its smart contract platform, designed to enhance the blockchain's functionality with efficient, developer-friendly tools for building sophisticated applications. In today's conversation, we dive deep into Stellar, review its fundamentals, reflect on its decade long journey as a Layer 1 blockchain, and have a closer look into the current use cases.

Erica Kang is the CEO and founder of KryptoSeoul, a leading community building team in South Korea that focuses on blockchain projects. Erica has been a bridge between the East and the West for a very long time. Before we dive into all of that, Erica will share a little bit about how she first got involved in the crypto community.

In today's podcast we host two guests: Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin, and Meg Lister, GM at Gitcoin Grants Labs. Gitcoin is a platform that connects developers with open-source projects for funding, collaboration, and building digital public goods through various forms of contribution like coding, design, and more.

Evan Cheng is the Co-founder & CEO at Mysten Labs, which is the team behind Sui Network. In their words, Sui is a Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform "designed to make digital asset ownership fast, private, secure, and accessible". In our conversation we explore the potential of this up and coming Layer 1 by learning about the underlying motivation of the founder, what makes it different from other blockchains, in particular Aptos, the current main uses cases, and more.

Today we're joined by Aptos co-founder and CTO Avery Ching. Aptos is a Layer 1 blockchain developed by former Facebook employees that launched towards the end of 2022. We cover everything from the fundamental and technical aspects of Aptos to current and future use cases.

Today we are joined by Brendan Farmer, who's the co-founder of Polygon, a project that is focused on scaling Ethereum. Our conversation begins with an exploration of the foundational elements that constitute the Polygon ecosystem.

Alex Blania is a cofounder of Worldcoin alongside Sam Altman and Max Novendtsern. In our conversation we dive into the controversial aspect of Worldcoin, get a better grasp of what the project is about and its founding story, the $WLD token, the (new) Orb, how scanned data is stored, and much more.

Today we're joined by Chris Amani, who's the CEO of Terraform Labs. Our conversation with Chris unfolds in two parts.

Thomas Mattimore is the CEO of ABC Labs, the company behind the development and promotion of the Reserve protocol, a permissionless platform that empowers anyone to launch and govern overcollateralized currencies backed by diverse baskets of assets.

Celestia Labs CEO and Co-Founder Mustafa Al-Bassam joins us to discuss Celestia's role as the first Data Availability Layer and its groundbreaking launch. Mustafa shares his journey from ethical hacking to blockchain innovation and touches on Celestia's integration within the Cosmos ecosystem, challenges faced, and its impact on future blockchain technology.

Matt Hougan and Camila Russo discuss a range of topics from the Bitcoin ETF launch to possible Ethereum ETFs and Bitcoin price forecast.

Jason Bailey is Co-Founder and CEO of ClubNFT, which provides solutions to help collectors analyze, monitor, and protect their NFT collections. Jason is an OG in the NFT space, an early collector on SuperRare, and creator of the first NFT IRL drop at Christie's Art Event in 2018.

Illia Polosukhin is the Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol, a sharded proof-of-stake Layer 1 blockchain. We discuss NEAR's transition from an AI project to crypto, and later gain deeper insight into NEAR's core principles, underlying technology, the users, builders, as well as anticipated new features in the near future.

Chris Bradbury is the CEO of Summer.fi (previously oasis.app). Summer.fi is the 6th largest DeFi protocol that enables users to borrow, lend, and multiply assets across multiple DeFi protocols

Will Warren is the Co-Founder of Matcha, a DEX aggregator built by 0x. Matcha recently launched cross-chain swap functionality, allowing users to swap one asset on a particular chain for an new asset on a separate chain with one transaction.

This conversation between The Defiant and Vitalik Buterin was recorded during Devconnect 2023 in Istanbul.

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