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The Chopping Block: Do Aragon Association Members Get 'Fat Salaries' With 'Zero Accountability'? - Ep. 492

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Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. In this episode, they talk about the recent issues surrounding the Aragon Foundation, the likelihood of Montenegro becoming an ETH hub, the BRC-20s mania, and much more!

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 Zuzalu is “Burning Man in the daytime”

whether Montenegro could become the “ETH El Salvador doppelganger”

why the Aragon Foundation alleged that they were under attack

why Aragon has “missed the boat on a lot of everything that’s happened in DAOs”

whether the Aragon Foundation is “suckling on the teat of the DAO for a fat salary”

whether Arca was right about wanting the Aragon treasury to be part of the on-chain governance

how on-chain governance can do even more than many of the investment banking functions that exist currently

why some Bitcoin developers want to censor BRC-20 transactions

why the way XEN works gives Haseeb a headache

whether Binance CEO CZ invented the memecoin PEPE

what the impact of Jump and Jane Street decreasing their market making activity is

where the next market makers will come from

Hosts

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly

Robert Leshner, founder of Compound

Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures

Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly

Disclosures
Links

Unchained:

Coinbase Apologizes After Calling PEPE a ‘Hate Symbol’

Market Makers Jump and Jane Street Withdraw From U.S. Crypto Trading: Report

CoinDesk: Aragon Cancels Planned Community Control of $200M Treasury Amid Battle With Activist Investors

The Block: Coinbase cuddles up to UAE policymakers as US outlook sours

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Publication year
2023
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