Welcome to Layer 0. Layer 0 is a podcast focusing on the people that make up the Ethereum community.

Crypto is built by code, but is composed by people, and each individual member of the crypto community has their own story to tell.

CypherPunks understood that the code they write impacts the people that use it, and Layer 0 focuses on the people behind the code

because the Ethereum is people all the way down, and it always has been.

Today, on Layer 0, we're talking with Cammy Russo, the chief S of the Defiant, and Cammy, I think, has one of the most interesting stories and interesting backgrounds that I've heard so far.

She has a very just logical process, and we talked about this, a logical process of who she is, is definitely an A plus B equals C conclusion out of her parents and her family.

She's got that entrepreneurial spirit, she's got a drive to create, she's got an intrinsic interest in journalism, and it kind of has logically concluded with where she is at now, which is at the Defiant.

But we started at the very beginning, we start at her time as a child in Chile, when she moved again as a young kid to Miami, then back to Chile for a degree in journalism, and then moving into her time at Bloomberg.

And it was overall just a fascinating story, and I'm having a ton of fun doing these Layer 0s because I just get to sit back for an hour and a half and hear story time from each of these individual guests, and I think Cammy's story has been one of my favorites so far.

We definitely tap on the differences at the very end between Bankless and the Defiant, so that was a fun little thing to hear.

And we also talk about, I share my perception as to how Cammy's book that she wrote, changed the course of Ethereum for the much, much better.

So I hope you enjoy this conversation with Cammy Russo, one of the best leaders in this space.

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