The Defiant - DeFi Podcast

Camila Russo created The Defiant as a media platform focused specifically on decentralized finance, and the podcast is its audio arm. With 318 episodes updated semi-weekly, it's more focused than most crypto shows -- you won't hear much about Bitcoin price action or meme coins here. Instead, Camila sits down with the people actually building DeFi protocols, running crypto institutions, and shaping regulation to get their firsthand accounts of where decentralized finance is heading. The guest list is genuinely impressive. Hayden Adams from Uniswap, Johann Kerbrat from Robinhood's crypto division, Circle's leadership team, Synthetix founder Kain Warwick -- these are the architects of the systems that billions of dollars flow through. Camila's background as a Bloomberg journalist means she knows how to ask follow-up questions and press for specifics rather than letting founders coast on marketing language. The show covers institutional adoption, stablecoin infrastructure, tokenization of real-world assets, cross-border payments, and governance models. It's the kind of podcast where you come away understanding not just what happened, but why it matters structurally. At 4.3 stars from 72 ratings, the audience is smaller but dedicated. Some listeners have noted the audio production could be tighter, which is a fair critique. But if DeFi is your primary interest within crypto -- the protocols, the economics, the actual mechanics of decentralized systems -- The Defiant is one of the few shows that covers this territory with real depth and journalistic rigor.