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.

From an anonymous account deploying the smart contracts to a fully diluted valuation of $175B and now over $1B in Total Value Locked, Curve’s native governance token launch has been an absolute rollercoaster. The DeFi community had been impatiently waiting for the launch of Curve Finance’s CRV token all last week, until they just couldn’t…