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Episode Synopsis
Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Robert Leshner, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. On this episode, Andre Cronje, the recently retired (sort of) DeFi developer, also joined the conversation. Show topics:
why being doxxed led to Andre retiring (sort of) from crypto
Andre’s response to Robert who calledl his departure from DeFi “an epic rug pull”
why Andre is back – and why he is working on “regulated” crypto products
how the Otherside KYC’d NFT drop was an “absolute fail”
where identity fits into the crypto space and why traditional and DeFi institutions alike are interested in the identity of their users
Dalle 2
why the Bored Ape community likely sees the Yuga Labs Otherdeed NFT sale as a turning point
why Robert would compare buying a BAYC NFT last year to purchasing BTC in 2010
main takeaways from Solana’s seven-hour outage and why designing a mempool (or multiple) is critical for the chain
Hosts
Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
https://twitter.com/hosseeb
Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital
https://twitter.com/tomhschmidt
Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
https://twitter.com/tarunchitra
Robert Leshner, founder of Compound
https://twitter.com/rleshner
Guest
Andre Cronje, DeFi OG
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andre-cronje
Show Topics
Andre Cronje’s Retirement
https://unchainedpodcast.com/this-defi-og-is-leaving-crypto/
Andre Cronje’s return to regulated crypto
https://andrecronje.medium.com/crypto-regulation-vs-regulated-crypto-aae56b36dcd8
Solana outage
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/144639/solana-restarted-after-seven-hour-outage-caused-by-surge-of-transactions
https://twitter.com/0xEdgar/status/1521188981538537472
https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/metaplex-program-library/pull/417
Yuga Labs rakes in $317MM from the sale of Otherside land NFTs and causes huge congestion on Ethereum.
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/144549/otherside-land-nfts-sell-out-in-hours-as-yuga-labs-rakes-in-317-million
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why being doxxed led to Andre retiring (sort of) from crypto
Andre’s response to Robert who calledl his departure from DeFi “an epic rug pull”
why Andre is back – and why he is working on “regulated” crypto products
how the Otherside KYC’d NFT drop was an “absolute fail”
where identity fits into the crypto space and why traditional and DeFi institutions alike are interested in the identity of their users
Dalle 2
why the Bored Ape community likely sees the Yuga Labs Otherdeed NFT sale as a turning point
why Robert would compare buying a BAYC NFT last year to purchasing BTC in 2010
main takeaways from Solana’s seven-hour outage and why designing a mempool (or multiple) is critical for the chain
Hosts
Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
https://twitter.com/hosseeb
Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital
https://twitter.com/tomhschmidt
Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
https://twitter.com/tarunchitra
Robert Leshner, founder of Compound
https://twitter.com/rleshner
Guest
Andre Cronje, DeFi OG
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andre-cronje
Show Topics
Andre Cronje’s Retirement
https://unchainedpodcast.com/this-defi-og-is-leaving-crypto/
Andre Cronje’s return to regulated crypto
https://andrecronje.medium.com/crypto-regulation-vs-regulated-crypto-aae56b36dcd8
Solana outage
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/144639/solana-restarted-after-seven-hour-outage-caused-by-surge-of-transactions
https://twitter.com/0xEdgar/status/1521188981538537472
https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/metaplex-program-library/pull/417
Yuga Labs rakes in $317MM from the sale of Otherside land NFTs and causes huge congestion on Ethereum.
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/144549/otherside-land-nfts-sell-out-in-hours-as-yuga-labs-rakes-in-317-million
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