Welcome to The Chopping Block – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest news. This week, Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy joins the show to discuss market making when the crypto markets are quiet. Plus, an analysis of Base’s prospects following a surge of early interest. Also: Do you think bank fraud is going to run rampant in the AI era?
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Show highlights:
how prop shops like Wintermute view the current state of the crypto market
how an organization like WIntermute interacts with DeFi platforms
Tarun and Evgeny attempt to squash some past beef
why Evgeny believes that some exchanges are “zombies”
whether this is a good time to build an exchange and how Evgeny would do it
how Base accomplished a big surge in its TVL and daily volumes
whether it’s possible for Coinbase to balance the decentralized nature of building a blockchain with a desire to minimize scams
how L2 sequencers have the power to censor transactions and the analogy to proof-of-authority chains
how friend.tech, the social app built on Base, works and why it got so much attention
why the crypto cognoscenti seemed to like friend.tech but hated BitClout, which is basically the same thing
what is the role of biometrics in securing crypto wallets and assets
whether bank fraud will increase or decrease because of advances in AI
Hosts
Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly
Robert Leshner, founder of Compound
Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
Guest:
Evgeny Gaevoy, CEO of Wintermute Trading
Previous appearance on Unchained: How Traders Are Thinking About the Merge — and a Potential ETHPoW Chain
Disclosures
Links
Unchained: Coinbase Layer 2 Base Sees 80% Rise in Total Value Locked
CoinDesk: Is Friend.tech a Friend or Foe? A Dive Into the New Social App Driving Millions in Trading Volume
Halborn: Explained: The Wintermute Hack (September 2022)
Forbes: Layer 2 Wars Heat Up As Coinbase Launches Base
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