The Chopping Block: Arthur Hayes & Tom Lee; Hyperliquid vs Aster, DATs & ETH - Ep. 917
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Laura Shin
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🗓️ 4 October 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know if people saw this tweet, but it was titled, Tom Lee's e-thesis is retarded. |
| 0:05.7 | Do you have a counterpoint to what you saw coming out of the Andrew Kong camp, the doubters? |
| 0:10.5 | Well, as you know, in the crypto world, retarded is a good thing. |
| 0:15.6 | Not a dividend. |
| 0:16.8 | It's a tale of two Kwan. |
| 0:17.9 | Now, your losses are on someone else's balance. |
| 0:20.6 | Generally speaking, air drops are kind of pointless anyways. I'm named trading firms who are very involved. D5 protocols are the antidote to this problem. Hello, Singapore. Welcome back. So we were here last year. Let's do the quick intro. Hello, everybody. Welcome to Chopin Block. Every |
| 0:38.1 | couple weeks, the four of us get together and give the industry insider perspective on the |
| 0:41.1 | crypto topics of the day. So quick intros, first you got Tarun, the gig of brain and grand poohbaugh at Gautlet. Yo. Next we got Tom, the Defy Maven and Master of Memes. Hello, everyone. joining us once again we've got |
| 0:52.3 | Arthur Hayes the Arbiter of Alpha |
| 0:54.5 | at Maelstrom. Good afternoon, motherfuckers. |
| 0:57.3 | During us again, we've got Arthur Hayes, the Arbiter of Alpha at Mailstrom. Good afternoon, motherfuckers. During us today, we've got Tom Lee, the Heath Baron and Bull Poster-in-Chief at Bitmine. Hello. And I am Seab, the head-hyped man at Dragonfly. We're early-stage investors in crypto, but I want to caveat that nothing we say here is investment advice, legal advice, or even life advice. Please buy every token that we talk about. Yeah, exactly. Please talk about the X, Y, Z, for more disclosures. So we're back here again, token 2049, and we were just reflecting backstage on what it was like last year. So if you remember, if you rewind the clock back to before Trump was our dear leader, token 249, it was all about meme coins. There was Salonar Breakpoint next door. If you remember, Igia Zalia, there was this big scandal. And I remember you were on stage with us, and you were talking shit about Jason Derulo, who hit you up and wanted to throw a party with you, and you were like, screw off. What is your, you had a celebrity run in again recently. Tell us about it. Yeah. So |
| 1:45.4 | Waka Flaka Flame hit me up on Twitter and he's like, yo, I want to like reinvigorate the |
| 1:51.4 | flaka token. And if you look at the chart, it's like zero basically. He's a lot of vigor. |
| 1:56.0 | Yeah. It needs a lot of help. But, you know, me and my chief of staff got on a call of them and they |
| 2:01.2 | pitched us something about streaming and attribution of artists. It actually sounds not too bad. I'd love to dig into it more. But, uh, okay. So you're not, you're not shitting on them directly. I mean, the token's dog shit, but like, maybe it can be like, okay. I'm not buying any of them, to be fair. |
| 2:16.4 | Not what I was expecting to say. |
| 2:17.3 | He's in it for the tech, not for the token. |
| 2:19.4 | Just buy, vibes, bro. |
| 2:20.6 | We always. but like maybe it can be like that way okay i'm not buying any of them to be fair not what i was expecting he's he's in it for the tech not for the token just buy we all know what there's in for the tech |
| 2:22.8 | okay that's very good how what's the vibe been of token 2049 this year traffic traffic |
| 2:28.4 | that's true i would say it's like almost comfortably boring you know i contrast like the meme |
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