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!
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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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