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Crypto market structure comes down to the next two weeks. A new Senate draft of the CLARITY Act dropped July 22, and August 10 is widely seen as the last date the bill can move before senators leave Washington.
In this live episode we cover what changed in the new draft, the ethics provisions holding up Democratic votes, self-custody and DeFi protections, and the realistic odds of passage before recess — with three of the people negotiating crypto policy in DC: Miller Whitehouse-Levine (Solana Policy Institute), Amanda Tuminelli (DeFi Education Fund) and Adrian Wall (Digital Sovereignty Alliance).
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Crypto market structure comes down to the next two weeks. A new Senate draft of the CLARITY Act dropped July 22, and August 10 is widely seen as the last date the bill can move before senators leave Washington.
In this live episode we cover what changed in the new draft, the ethics provisions holding up Democratic votes, self-custody and DeFi protections, and the realistic odds of passage before recess — with three of the people negotiating crypto policy in DC: Miller Whitehouse-Levine (Solana Policy Institute), Amanda Tuminelli (DeFi Education Fund) and Adrian Wall (Digital Sovereignty Alliance).
🔴 LIVE Friday, July 24 — 12:30pm ET
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Camila Russo — Founder & CEO, The Defiant
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![Optimism Is Done With “Ethereum Alignment” — Users Come First
In this episode of The Defiant Podcast, Camila Russo sits down with Jing Wang to discuss how Optimism is evolving and why the debate over what counts as a “real” Ethereum L2 might be missing the point.
Jing argues that the most important question isn’t whether a chain is an L1, L2, or sidechain. It’s whether the architecture actually serves users and real-world use cases.
“If it looks like an L1, we’ll build that. If it looks like an L2, we’ll build that.”
In the conversation we cover:
- Why Optimism now sees itself as a network of blockchains (the Superchain)
• The debate around Ethereum L2 decentralization sparked by Vitalik Buterin
• Why institutions are already using decentralized rails
• Why ZK proofs are the future
• And why Jing believes finance inevitably moves on-chain
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