Camila Russo

It looks like a product, designed, iterated, and built to be installed by the hundreds.

So who's making these implants? How far have they spread? And what did Ledger know before the money was gone? I'm Camila Russo, and this is The Defiant.

My guest is Mark Karpelès.

Most of you know the name.

The open question is the one Marc couldn't answer.

If the implant is a product, who else is buying it? This is The Defiant.

I'm Camila Russo.

Follow Marc Karpeles and Parpeles Lab for his antenna detector and the next findings from his teardown bench.

Early on-chain estimates put the losses at more than $90 million across roughly 300 wallets.

So if the hardware itself can betray you, who are you actually trusting? And is self-custody still something regular people can do safely? I'm Camila Russo, and this is The Defiant.

To make sense of this, I called Pablo Sabbatella of OpSec, a security firm that audits crypto companies and high net worth individuals.

This one's personal for me.

It's whether you can still trace exactly how your keys came to exist and who touched everything along the way.

This is The Defiant.

I'm Camila Russo.

Follow Pablo Sabbatella and OPSEC to keep your setup safe as this story develops.