In this week’s episode, I speak with Nick Johnson, founder and lead developer of Ethereum Name Service, or ENS. Nick talks about the journey of ENS, from an internal project within the Ethereum Foundation, to spinning off to become a public good for Ethereum and other blockchains, and recently decentralizing and becoming a DAO controlled by token holders. He goes into why a DAO was in the plans from the start of the project and what the transition was like to get to a point where it became safer for token holders to control the protocol, instead of a more centralized group of managers. Nick discusses ENS tokenomics, and the initial lessons after distributing the token about a month ago. Nick talks about the big vision of ENS, which is to become the naming service for every digital resource in the world. ENS is not just about naming Ethereum addresses as it already works with other blockchains and it’s not just about resolving content, like with IPFS sites, which you can also do. The big vision is to become a decentralized identity system, which will work across multiple platforms. In the future, your blockchain wallet will become your login, not just for DeFi and Ethereum dapps, but for web2 websites as well. Nick says this future is not too far away. Follow The Defiant team on Twitter: Camila Russo https://twitter.com/CamiRusso Robin Schmidt: https://twitter.com/iamsupermassive Alp Gasimov: https://twitter.com/alpgasimov ✊ 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=2lU5YzI66aM

It’s Monday the 20th of December and as we stumble haphazardly towards Christmas and the inevitable deluge of best of year end lists from and all that I thought we might go in a different direction today. We’re going to offer up a gift to someone who’s built up a sizable audience in traditional finance content creation and began talking about NFTs and cryptocurrencies on a regular basis this year. Andrei Jikh is now one of the most recognisable faces in the world of finfluencers. I have nothing but the utmost respect for how he’s managed to build an audience with a subscriber count pushing hard towards 2 million. So what to get the person who seems to have everything? Well, Andrei, today we give you the gift of knowledge. We’ll take this video that you dropped just a few short days ago and add some additional insight from our side. This is a space we know… really well and I think it might just give your audience greater clarity and solid ground with which to make good investment decisions. Your ultimate guide into DeFi https://thedefiant.io/what-is-defi-ultimate-defi-101-guide/ How to get started in DeFi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_L5IPXpH90 Our sponsor liquity.org/defiant 00:00 Intro to Andre 01:29 Sponsors 01:55 Who is Andre Jikh 02:26 Why did we make this video? 03:12 NFTs are not an asset class 04:40 Risks 04:54 NFTs that vanish 06:24 The problem of valuing NFTs 07:22 Wash trading 09:27 Other risks to consider 09:58 BAYC and how to afford them using fractionalisation (or not) 11:39 VeVe and the issue of IP with BAYC and Punks 12:58 CryptoPunks and why CryptoKitties got there first 13:34 Did Andrei buy what it looked like he bought? 13:50 Sensible investing and not being fancy 15:05 Andrei's ape of choice 15:22 Robin's ape and some cheaper alternatives 15:52 Passive income does NOT exist in NFTs 16:38 Why doesn't Andrei cover DeFi? 17:33 Andrei's second gift from the Defiant Follow The Defiant team on Twitter: Camila Russo https://twitter.com/CamiRusso Robin Schmidt: https://twitter.com/iamsupermassive Alp Gasimov: https://twitter.com/alpgasimov ✊ 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 #andreijikh ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxD803yMcZQ