Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest crypto news.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.
Show highlights:
- why the Azuki new NFT collection ‘Elementals’ caused such a controversy among holders
- why Robert bought an Elemental and what was he expecting
- who the Michael Milken of NFTs is, according to Tarun
- how BitGo ‘pulled a Binance’ on Prime Trust
- how Prime Trust, a crypto custodian, collapsed and was put into receivership
- whether what Prime Trust did can be considered fraud and how the situation highlights DeFi’s ‘long term advantage’
- why the majority of blockspace is EVM-compatible
- what the problems are with current Layer 2 rollups such as Optimism and Arbitrum
- why rollups are so ‘political’ in the Ethereum ecosystem
- what makes Arbitrum better than Optimism, according to Tarun
- what shared sequencers are and whether they will be the future in crypto
- Why Haseeb is not so bullish on the app-chain thesis
Hosts
- Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly
- Robert Leshner, founder of Compound
- Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly
- Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
Disclosures
Links
- Unchained:
- The Block:
- CoinDesk:
- Azuki’s thread on its situation
