Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner, chop it up about the latest news. In this episode, the gang answers audience questions, digs into the discourse around rollups, and debates whether modular blockchains will vanquish existing monoliths.

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Show highlights: 

How someone asked people to just give them money, and raised over $1 million

Answering audience questions from Twitter, including ‘what’s Tarun’s favorite drug?’

Whether there’s tension between Haseeb and Tarun

How the incoming generations of crypto people (e.g. “Class of 2017”) have changed over the cycles

The five-level explainer on what a rollup is 

Why everyone’s debating the ontology of rollups and why Haseeb still thinks blockchains are like religions

Tarun’s take on the modular blockchain thesis and why Haseeb is skeptical

Whether app chains like the ones in Cosmos will become dominant

Whether one of the top 4 chains will be modular in the next five to 10 years

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

Binance Feed: Bored Ape NFT Holder Ben.eth Launches Third Crusade of Memecoin Psychopathy



Rollups, Rigor, and Reality by Kelvin Fichter


Rollups Are L1s (& L2s) a.k.a. How Rollups *Actually Actually Actually* Work by Jon Charbonneau

Haseeb’s question on Twitter

Previous episode of The Chopping Block on the L1 debate: Why Are We Still Building Layer 1s?





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