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The Defiant · 334 episodes with transcripts

The internet of money is being built with blockchain technology and without banks. We call it DeFi, short for Decentralized Finance, and this is where you can hear the builders and users of this cutting edge world tell their stories first hand. Hosted by Camila Russo.

Spoken has transcripts of 334 The Defiant episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from July 30, 2026.

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Memecoins Eat Everything: Robinhood's Accidental Casino & Base's Identity Crisis

July 30, 2026

Camila Russo (0:00)

Brian Armstrong changed his profile picture.

That shouldn't be a news story. But in crypto, in July 2025, the CEO of Coinbase, changing his profile picture to a Memecoin called Brian, sent 10,000 new wallets flooding into base, drove the token to 30 plus million in market cap, and for about 24 hours, felt like a turning point. Like the most powerful man in…

Jason Yanowitz (2:50)

This is only a recent change in recent years that public companies can be this bold, right? Public companies can do live streams. Public companies can like shitpost on Twitter. This is a completely new phenomenon. The natural tendency for a company is you get bigger. Even we feel this at Blockworks, and we only have…

Camila Russo (3:28)

Michael Lee has been building on BASE since the beginning. He's not a mercenary trader. He runs hedge funds north of 100 million Sugandala partners and has been bringing institutional capital on Tain. But he also understands the culture from the inside. His read of the PFP moment was the most nuanced of the three.

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