The Chopping Block: 2021 in Crypto: The Biggest Winners, Biggest Losers, and Best Memes - Ep.303

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Laura Shin

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🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Chopping Block, a new show on Unchained hosted by Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra, in which they discuss the latest juicy topics in crypto. This week, the four crypto heavyweights take a look back at 2021. Show topics: Biggest winners and losers Best mechanism Biggest surprise Best meme Predictions for 2022 Without revealing too much, Haseeb, Robert, Tom, and Tarun cover a lot of ground, diving into “esoteric” subjects like Luna tokenomics, the Tezos NFT marketplace HEN, the origins of web3, the Grayscale arbitrage opportunity, OHM, Convex Finance, single-basis point liquidity pools on Uniswap, and Empty Set Dollar. They also tackle more popular topics like BTC, Dogecoin, NFT marketplaces, L1s, and more. Episode Links Hosts Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital https://twitter.com/hosseeb Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital https://twitter.com/tomhschmidt Robert Leshner, managing partner at Robot Ventures https://twitter.com/rleshner Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures https://twitter.com/tarunchitra Biggest Winners: L1 performance in 2021: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/128603/in-2021-l1-blockchains-took-the-spotlight-thanks-to-defi Coinbase IPO: https://unchainedpodcast.com/is-coinbase-stock-a-good-buy-this-analyst-says-yes/ Solana: https://www.notboring.co/p/solana-summer OpenSea: https://www.readthegeneralist.com/briefing/opensea Lido: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/is-lido-undervalued Dogecoin: https://docsend.com/view/vutymtgqjf99yrpu Solana early investors: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/solana-generates-1-billion-in-returns-for-early-backers Mechanisms Uniswap V3: https://uniswap.org/blog/launch-uniswap-v3 Convex Finance (+ Curve): https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/11/curve-wars-heat-up-emergency-dao-invoked-after-clear-governance-attack/ OHM: https://www.coingecko.com/buzz/what-is-olympusdao-and-how-does-it-work ESD: https://medium.com/@lewisfreiberg/empty-set-dollar-esd-a0abbfc5ecdb Biggest Losers: Grayscale: https://dcresearch.medium.com/interpreting-grayscale-premiums-gbtc-ethe-a7261dd8cfca Bitcoin: https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin/ HEN: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/news+/126688/tezos-art-marketplace-hen EOS: https://cryptonews.com/news/eos-down-as-community-forks-out-blockone.htm Biggest Surprises Uniswap pool analytics:https://info.uniswap.org/#/pools NFTs: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/11/22325054/beeple-christies-nft-sale-cost-everydays-69-million + https://decrypt.co/89060/bored-ape-yacht-club-nfts-flip-cryptopunks-floor-price-in-ethereum Luna: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/11/10/terra-passes-highly-anticipated-proposal-to-burn-nearly-89m-luna/ Best Memes Dog coins: https://nypost.com/2021/12/27/santa-floki-cryptocurrency-surges-3500-after-elon-musk-tweet/ SBF shoes: https://twitter.com/zackseward/status/1468641558346059777 Grimes tweet: https://twitter.com/grimezsz/status/1449528005966000129 Web3: https://www.coindesk.com/learn/what-is-web-3-and-why-is-everyone-talking-about-it/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, all. Laura here. We're trying something new and unchained. We'll be doing live streams
0:06.1	every other week of a new show called The Chopping Block, a conversation between four crypto
0:11.9	investors, Haseeb Kureshi and Tom Schmidt, Managing Partners at Dragonfly Capital, and
0:18.0	Robert Leshner and Taroon Chitra, Managing Partners at Robot Ventures. In each episode,
0:23.6	Haseeb, Tom, Robert and Taroon will discuss recent events in crypto. We will also release
0:29.7	these conversations on the podcast so you can always tune in later, but the live streams
0:35.8	will be the earliest you can catch the shows, and in general, the videos will have all the
0:41.1	visual content, whereas the podcasts will, obviously, only be audio. I've already watched
0:47.6	a few of their discussions and they're fun. Plus, they give you a wealth of insight into
0:52.0	the many happenings in the space. I just wanted to pop in here to explain why, number
0:57.4	one, there's a live stream going on, and number two, why I am not a part of it. So, with
1:03.6	that done, now, I will turn it over to Haseeb. Thanks, Laura, and thanks for shaperoning and
1:11.0	making sure that we're behaving ourselves. So, with that further ado, with that further
1:17.6	ado, let's let's kick off the show. So, hey everybody, welcome to The Chopping Block. Every
1:22.6	couple weeks, the four of us get together and we give an industry insider's perspective
1:26.6	on the crypto topics of the day. So, quick round of intros. I'll show it with Tom. Tom
1:32.3	is the DeFi Maven and the Master of Memes. Whoa, did you just, did you just take a flight?
1:36.8	There's a little, that was a little power surge over here. So, sorry about that.
1:40.0	Oh, wow. You say his name, you know, the DeFi. Yeah, I was, I was, I was, I was in touch
1:44.7	with all of you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got your own light show going on over there. Then
1:48.9	we've got Robert, Crypto Connoisseur, and Captain of Compound. Robert is also for whatever
1:54.3	reason he's hanging out in a little girl's bedroom for reasons that he cannot fully explain.
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