On the 18th December, The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released a proposed rule that would instill record keeping and reporting requirements for transactions by or to a bank or money service business involving an “unhosted or otherwise covered wallet.” The 15 day comment period to respond to this proposal ended with over 65K…

$777,777.77 was the highest bid for a piece from Beeple’s entire 2020 collection. The whole catalogue went for $3.5 Million. Trevor Jones breaks down the Beeple bonanza and later shares his ambitious project for the upcoming year involving 20 artists. And guess who’s involved…

With 2020 coming to an end, the torch is being passed over to 2021. The bull market seems inevitable as Bitcoin is just shy of $20,000, although that probably won’t be the only exciting thing for the upcoming year. Here are 5 other things we’re looking forward to in 2021.

Another week, another hack… what have we learned this time?

After five attacks and millions of dollars lost due to an exploit, this week we’re diving deep into the mechanism behind what made this possible: Flash Loans. Some called it a magnificent attack, some called it art. But there are other important questions to be asked: were the flash loan attack prevention, fake token attack…

Social Tokens… very few token types elicit such a strong reaction amongst the cryptoscenti. From $HUE to $COIN to $JAMM a new wave of experimentalists are carving out unique ideas to explore what’s possible under tokenised models. Most will fail, some (many?) are scams. But given the immense power of ‘influencers’ in the non-crypto world…

In the previous episode of The Defiant there was a QR code embedded in the video. Had you scanned that code it would have brought you into a week-long NFT-based social experiment designed to test a simple question: ‘Are you greedy or are you cultured.’ We normally report the news in DeFi and blockchain but…

Following the great DeFi summer many have been predicting NFTs to be the tricky second album. This is a monumentally large subject with competing viewpoints and every level of talent from scammer to international superstar. In this episode we cover Robert Alice’s Block 21 sale at Christie’s through Anthony Pompliano’s big bet on Trevor Jones,…

This is The Defiant x Harmony, a weekly series brought to you by Harmony Protocol’s Creative Director, Robin Schmidt, and Camila Russo, the founder of The Defiant, to explore DeFi’s most important stories and demystify this exciting emerging financial space.

This is The Defiant x Harmony, a weekly series brought to you by Harmony Protocol’s Creative Director, Robin Schmidt, and Camila Russo, the founder of The Defiant, to explore DeFi’s most important stories and demystify this exciting emerging financial space.