Podcast Transcript
Tekin Salimi on Managing $125M Through A DAO
This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak with Tekin Salimi, the founder of dao5, a Web 3 investment fund founded last year. Tekin was previously at Polychain Capital.
An Inside look Into Solana After FTX’s Collapse
This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak with Tal Tchwella, Product Manager of Products Engineering at Solana Labs.
Yorke Rhodes Explains How Microsoft Is Leveraging Ethereum
This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak with Yorke Rhodes, the co-founder of Blockchain at Microsoft.
Notorious Threadooor Adam Cochran Explains Crypto Shopping and Shorting List
This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak with Adam Cochran, an investor at Cinneamhain Ventures, who’s probably most known for his extensive Twitter threads.
BitGo’s Mike Belshe on What’s Next for WBTC & Crypto Custodians
This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak with Mike Belshe, the CEO of BitGo, a digital asset custodian, wallet, and issuer of wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC).
Arweave’s Sam Williams on Storing Files On-Chain for Eternity
This week on The Defiant Podcast, Tegan Kline speaks with Sam Williams, the co-founder and CEO of Arweave, a ‘collectively owned hard drive’ that enables users to store data, applications, and documents on-chain, forever.
Filecoin’s Juan Benet on Upgrading the Heart of The Internet with Blockchains
This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak with Juan Benet, the founder of Protocol Labs and the inventor of the InterPlanetary File System.
Saga’s Bogdan Alexandrescu on Making Web3 More Accessible to Builders
This week on The Defiant Podcast, Tegan Kline speaks with Bogdan Alexandrescu, co-founder and VP of Engineering at SAGA.
🎙️ Onyx’s Tyrone Lobban Takes Us Behind the Scenes of JP Morgan’s First DeFi Trade
This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Tyrone Lobban, the head of blockchain at JPMorgan’s Onyx, a business unit focused on digital assets. In the craziness of the past couple weeks, it’s easy to overlook or forget good news and positive developments. JP Morgan recently made history by becoming the first major bank […]
🎙️Polygon's Hamzah Khan Wants to Make DeFi More Accessible Than Running Water
Alpha Leak: Sneak Peek of Robinhood’s Non-Custodial Wallet
🎙️Offchain Labs' A.J. Warner on Making Arbitrum the Leading Layer 2 Scaling Solution for Ethereum
This 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.
🎙️Delphi Labs' Gabriel Shapiro on How 100% of DeFi Could Become Illegal
This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Gabriel Shapiro, general counsel at Delphi Labs and a member of the LeXpunK group of crypto lawyers.
🎙️a16z's Ali Yahya Says We’ve Entered The Golden Era Of Blockchain Applications
This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Ali Yahya, General Partner at a16z, also known as Andreessen Horowitz. a16z is an investment giant – they’ve raised $6.7B between their crypto funds in the last two years and are the largest crypto-dedicated fund in the world.
🎙️Friends with Benefits' Alex Zhang on Building Web3 Communities That Endure
This week’s Defiant Podcast is from a conversation I had with Alex Zhang at the Unfinished Live conference. Alex is the mayor of Friend with Benefits, or FWB, a prominent DAO of creatives. Friends with Benefits started as an experiment when its founder minted and airdropped the FWB token to an early community. FWB holders gained access to private chat groups on Discord. From there, it developed into a community of thousands of members, live events and even proprietary software. Alex explains the evolution and growth of Friends with Benefits.
🎙️Wintermute's David Micley Says Institutional Investors Are Here To Stay
David Believes We Could See A Multi-Year Crypto Winter