$3.9bn of Crypto was hacked or stolen in 2022 alone. 2021 saw about $3.2bn vanish, which was already a 6 fold increase compared to 2020. The question is - with both legislators and prosecutors out for blood, will this year be any different? Our sponsor https://www.staderlabs.com/ ✨ Check out our new website ✨ https://thedefiant.io/ ? Sign up to our newsletter ? https://thedefiant.io/go-premium#pricing?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=signup ? Find DeFi investment opportunities & educational primers here https://thedefiant.io/promo?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alpha ✊ Follow The Defiant Twitter: https://twitter.com/defiantnews Discord: https://discord.gg/thedefiant Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedefiant.io/ Telegram: https://t.me/DefiantNews ? Contact our Newsroom editorial@thedefiant.io ? Sponsorships & Partnerships sponsors@thedefiant.io ? Follow The Defiant team on Twitter Camila Russo: https://twitter.com/CamiRusso Alp Gasimov: https://twitter.com/alpgasimov yyctrader: https://twitter.com/yyctrader1 Owen Fernau: https://twitter.com/ofernau Devin Sawyer: https://twitter.com/devinsawyer Samuel Haig: https://twitter.com/samuel_haig Diego Cabral: https://twitter.com/DiegoCabral__ Nick Duddy: https://twitter.com/nickduddy Pab: https://twitter.com/pprhsk Tegan Kline: https://twitter.com/theklineventure Jeremy: https://twitter.com/ETH_Nation #TheDefiant​ #DeFi​ #Decentralized​ #Finance​ #Blockchain #Web3 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsVBa8htJR4

What the duck is DeFi? Join us for our first ever livestream - Defiant Weekly is our friday deep dive show and where the video department first began. In this special episode we're going back to basics and doing a live version of Robin's now infamous Consensus presentation. We'll cover the basics of DeFi from LP's to Collateralized debt positions and do a live demo of how you might start using money legos. It's interactive so feel free to ask questions in the chat and of course, since it's friday we'll keep it lite, keep it tite and pray that Robin can get through an whole hour without cursing at a teleprompter... Step into the world of livestream with us and who knows, we might learn a thing or 2. Our sponsors https://balancer.finance/ https://aave.com/ Follow The Defiant https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/ https://twitter.com/defiantnews https://thedefiant.io/ https://t.me/DefiantNews https://t.me/DefiantChat #TheDefiant​ #DeFi​ #Decentralized​ #Finance​ #Blockchain ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmPmTzPFEgY

Today we're joined by Mustafa Al-Bassam, CEO and Co-Founder of Celestia Labs. 15 years after Satoshi, we finally have what a blockchain actually is Celestia provides the ability to publish data and make sure that data is available. Celestia had what many are calling one of the best launches of 2023, and they are the first Data Availability Layer live today. In our conversation we get into how Mustafa built Celestia, other Data Availability Layers in the space, how Celestia can be thought of as a bulletin board for computers with some cryptographic and economic assurances - computers posting info so everyone can see it. It's so simple. It's an obvious fundamental building block. Yet they were the first to do it. Prior to Celestia, Mustafa was generally known for his expertise in ethical hacking. He hacked the US government at the age of 16 and was sentenced for it. We get into this and so much more, but first to ground the conversation, Mustafa shares what he is focused on at Celestia today. 0:00 Intro 1:10 Mustafa Al-Bassam 8:45 Hacking the US Government 10:47 Lazy Ledger 14:13 Colab with Vitalik 16:00 Challenges 18:00 DA and Celestia within Blockchain 19:27 Modular Blockchain 21:54 Monolithic Chains 24:55 Celestia within Cosmos 25:40 Celestia technicals 29:08 Requirements to run a node 35:05 The Graph vs Celestia 36:42 Developer experience 38:23 Starting fresh 40:21 Advice for teams 41:10 Celestia's culture 43:27 Payments 45:10 Decentralized Stablecoins ✨ Check out our new website ✨ https://thedefiant.io/ ? Sign up to our newsletter ? https://thedefiant.io/go-premium#pricing?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=signup ? Find DeFi investment opportunities & educational primers here https://thedefiant.io/promo?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alpha ✊ Follow The Defiant Twitter: https://twitter.com/defiantnews Discord: https://discord.com/invite/3SdRdEs5ag Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedefiant.io/ Telegram: https://t.me/DefiantNews ? Contact our Newsroom editorial@thedefiant.io ? Sponsorships & Partnerships sponsors@thedefiant.io #TheDefiant​ #DeFi​ #Decentralized​ #Finance​ #Blockchain #Web3 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS-E--V5puU

This week’s podcast is from a conversation I had with Alex Zhang recorded in person at the Unfinished Live conference. Alex Zhang is the mayor of Friend with Benefits, or FWB, a prominent DAO of creatives. ✨Check out our new website✨ https://thedefiant.io/ ?Sign up to our newsletter? https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/ Follow The Defiant team on Twitter Camila Russo: https://twitter.com/CamiRusso Alp Gasimov: https://twitter.com/alpgasimov ✊ Follow The Defiant Twitter https://twitter.com/defiantnews Discord https://discord.com/invite/svJ7dZ75J3 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thedefiant.io/ Telegram News https://t.me/DefiantNews #TheDefiant​ #DeFi​ #Decentralized​ #Finance​ #Blockchain ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38C5-9RZE7w