Camila Russo

The SEC and CFTC's landmark crypto taxonomy has been widely hailed as a decisive break from years of regulatory limbo but legal experts say one of its most consequential provisions raises more questions than it answers, with no formal process for issuers to find out if they've gotten it right.

Aave service providers on Monday published a detailed incident report quantifying the protocol's exposure to the April 18 Kelp DAO rsETH bridge exploit, outlining two bad-debt scenarios ranging from $123.7 million to $230.1 million, and recommending an immediate pause of the protocol's Umbrella safety module.

The same architectural openness that turned a forged cross-chain message at Kelp DAO's bridge into hundreds of millions of bad debt at Aave has in 48 hours, produced its own antidote: A coalition of DeFi protocols has launched an emergency exit route.

Prediction markets are entering a new phase — and the biggest market makers in the world are taking notice. Alex Momot, Co-founder of Peanut Trade, joins Camila Russo to break down the mechanics, the opportunity, and the risks behind this fast-moving space. Topics covered: -What Peanut Trade does and how it started as a MEV searcher in 2020 -Why prediction markets could be the next big thing for tokenization and AI -Why firms like Wintermute, Jane Street and Susquehanna are eyeing prediction markets -The liquidity crisis in prediction markets and how market makers solve it -Polymarket vs. Kalshi: which is more institutional and why it matters -Insider trading in prediction markets: is it actually a bigger problem? -How AI tools compare markets across platforms to find arbitrage -Hyperliquid's entry into prediction markets and what it means for competition -Whether small startups can survive next to $20B giants like Polymarket and Kalshi -Peanut Trade's roadmap: AI agents that hedge your geopolitical risk automatically 🔔 Subscribe for more DeFi, crypto, and Web3 coverage from The Defiant.

Rocket Pool's Saturn 1 upgrade reshapes the math for RPL and rETH holders. Darren Langley, GM of Rocket Pool, sits down with Camila Russo to explain how the protocol expands its scaling capacity, stabilizes rETH's peg, and turns RPL staking into a real ETH-yield strategy. 03:46 Saturn 1 vs. Saturn 0: what actually changed 11:43 The 4 ETH bond and megapool structure 13:33 RPL's fee switch and falling inflation 18:18 Why Rocket Pool sees decentralization as a competitive edge over Lido and centralized exchanges 23:51 Why ETH staking keeps climbing and what's driving demand from ETFs and treasury companies Watch to understand where Ethereum liquid staking is headed next. Explore The Defiant ✨

Blockchain's most underrated and important use case: nutrition aid for mothers in Haiti and banking the unbanked in Afghanistan. Stablecoins for aid. Camila Russo talks to Mercina Tillemann (Circle) & Matthew Keller (Algorand Foundation) at Algorand's Humanitarian Payments Council about how stablecoins are being used to make aid payments faster, cheaper and traceable 👇

DTCC holds $114 trillion in assets. On July 15th, it showed the world how those assets can be converted into digital tokens, traded in real production cond

The AI revolution runs on GPUs, and right now, demand is massively outpacing supply. Viktoriya Hying, co-founder of B3 Labs, joins Camila Russo to break down B3-IQ: an owner-operated compute network that lets investors and smaller AI labs own NVIDIA's most powerful GPUs, including the H200, for as little as 30% down, then earn passive income renting them out. From competing with AWS pricing to navigating the wild west of AI compute procurement, this episode covers why owning the hardware is the smarter long-term play over renting from hyperscalers, and how B3-IQ is building the transparency layer the industry desperately needs.

The Senate is set to vote on a procedural motion to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, the major crypto market structure bill, on Tuesday, September 15 — a critical step toward a full floor vote, requiring at least seven non-Republican votes to clear the 60-vote threshold. Camila Russo talks with Summer Mersinger (Blockchain Association) and Kevin Wysocki (Anchorage Digital) live as the vote unfolds, breaking down what's in the bill, what's still being negotiated, and what it would mean for the industry if it passes. Topics covered: What today's procedural vote actually means and what happens next if it succeeds or fails The key sticking points still being negotiated, including ethics and stablecoin provisions What the Clarity Act would change for how crypto is regulated in the US Why bipartisan support matters and which senators are the ones to watch How the industry — exchanges, custodians, and institutions — is preparing for different outcomes What long-term regulatory clarity could mean for crypto adoption and market growth Guests: Summer Mersinger, CEO of the Blockchain Association, and Kevin Wysocki, Head of Policy at Anchorage Digital Host: Camila Russo, The Defiant Presented by Oasis — a self-custody wallet built on a 2/3 multisig. You hold two keys, Oasis holds a recovery key, and never has unilateral access. Oasis is giving away a CryptoPunk to the first 500 new or upgraded plans through October 31: https://www.oasisvault.io/cryptopunk

Solana just took the most historic step in its governance history: its first real on-chain vote, where any SOL holder — not just validators — could weigh in on the network's constitution, inflation and fees. Camila Russo sits down with Nick Almond, Head of Governance at the Jito Foundation, right as that shift collides with a new threat: Robinhood's own chain moving in on meme coins, the one corner of crypto that was always Solana's. Nick breaks down how the vote actually played out — including the disinflation proposal that was decided with eight seconds left after Kraken flipped its vote — how JitoSOL swung its entire stake pool with a 13% quorum trigger, and why he still thinks Solana's shot at attracting new apps, from tokenized stocks to meme coins, is stronger than people give it credit for. Presented by Oasis — a self-custody wallet built on a 2/3 multisig. You hold two keys, Oasis holds a recovery key, and never has unilateral access. Oasis is giving away a CryptoPunk to the first 500 new or upgraded plans through October 31: https://www.oasisvault.io/cryptopunk