Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What happens when you bring DeFi to one of the biggest and least digital markets in the world — energy? Ed Hess, CEO of Energy Web, joins Camila Russo on The Defiant to explain how his team spent nearly a decade building the infrastructure to verify energy data on-chain, and why that's the missing piece to unlock the next wave of real-world asset tokenization.

Topics covered:

- The trust crisis in ESG reporting and how blockchain can fix it
- Energy Web's "verified compute cloud" and how it compares to AWS
- Why tokenizing renewable power plants still requires a verification layer
- How corporates pay in USDC while stakers earn service fees
- The vision for a 100% renewable, real-time coordinated energy market

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