Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In episode 4 we speak with Piers Ridyard, the CEO of Radix DLT

Here, in his Show & Tell segment, Piers highlights the insane growth of assets locked into DeFi projects, and the impact that is having on Ethereum, the primary layer one protocol DeFi projects are currently built on.

In the longer (audio only) part of the podcast, Piers digs deep into the big topics:
- What is Defi?
- What’s holding Defi back from wider adoption?
- How do we achieve scalability and composability using DLT?
- How do you build a sustainable community of security-minded developers on a new layer one protocol?
- And why it’s important to get a good night’s sleep!

To hear that conversation please search for CopperCasts in Apple Podcasts or on Podbeans (Spotify coming soon!).

You can follow Piers and Radix on Twitter: @PiersRidyard and @radixdlt

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