Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry.
Show topics:
- Everyone’s impression of Laura’s interview with Do Kwon
- The importance to differentiate failure and fraud
- The Mango Markets hack and whether code is law
- What happened with the BNB hack and the concerns it raised about decentralization
- Magic Eden’s decision to enable optional royalties and the debate about NFT royalties
- How creators are going to find a way around the royalties, according to Robert
- Whether NFTs should be treated as securities
Hosts
- Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
- Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
- Robert Leshner, founder of Compound
- Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital
Episode Links
Laura’s interview with Do Kwon:
Do Kwon of Terra: ‘It Was Never Really About Money or Fame or Success’Hacks
- Mango Markets
- Mango Markets $42M Reimbursement Proposal Passes
- Mango Markets Exploiter Returns $67M After Revealing His Identity
- Mango Markets Hacker Proposes Keeping $70M ‘Bad Debt’ As Bounty
- Solana’s Mango Markets Sees $100M Drained in DeFi Exploit
- BNB
- BNB Smart Chain Plans Hard Fork In Response to $100M Exploit
- Binance Chain Was Halted Amid Hack Rumors
NFT Royalties
- Magic Eden
- TCB Debate
- Tom’s tweet: “turns out people don’t want to pay royalties”
- Robert’s request for a startup
- Previous episodes of The Chopping Block debating NFT Royalties:
