2022 was a bad year for centralized exchanges. FTX imploded in a massive scandal. Binance continues to attract questions. Coinbase stock is trading at an all-time low. But is a bad situation for CeFi necessarily good for DeFi? On today’s show, Ash Bennington asks decentralized finance guru Mona El Isa, the CEO and founder of Avantgarde Finance and founder of Enzyme, if DeFi is really the answer to crypto’s woes, and whether or not DeFi is ready for the challenge at this very time. Plus, we’ll cover the latest on Sam Bankman-Fried's trial and Core Scientific reaching an agreement with Celsius Network.
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2022 was a bad year for centralized exchanges. FTX imploded in a massive scandal. Binance continues to attract questions. Coinbase stock is trading at an all-time low. But is a bad situation for CeFi necessarily good for DeFi? On today’s show, Ash Bennington asks decentralized finance guru Mona El Isa, the CEO and founder of Avantgarde Finance and founder of Enzyme, if DeFi is really the answer to crypto’s woes, and whether or not DeFi is ready for the challenge at this very time. Plus, we’ll cover the latest on Sam Bankman-Fried's trial and Core Scientific reaching an agreement with Celsius Network.

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