The Chopping Block: Do Kwon Pitches a Decentralized NFT Publishing Service - Ep.333

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Laura Shin

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🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. On this week’s episode, Do Kwon, founder of Terraform Labs, also dropped by. Show topics: why Do decided to make millions of dollars in bets that LUNA will appreciate in value next year what Robert and Do, as crypto/DeFi founders, think about Crypto Twitter how the difficulty of building payment systems led to Do launching Terra Gauntlet’s recent funding round (and what it does) takeaways from Yuga Labs purchasing CryptoPunk and Meebits IP, ApeCoin, Otherside, and more how NFTs could change the game for publishing and content IP industries whether an NFT collection’s cultural relevance is similar to an L1’s TVL Bored Ape Yacht Club as the first NFT franchise why Haseeb is so disappointed with Axie Infinity, VCs, and other P2E games what Facebook’s foray into NFTs might look like 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, founder of Compound https://twitter.com/rleshner Guest Do Kwon, founder of Terra https://twitter.com/stablekwon Episode Topics Gauntlet raises $23.8M led by Ribbit, now a Unicorn - congrats Tarun! https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-quant-firm-gauntlet-valued-at-1b-following-series-b Do Kwon on a Terra betting spree ($1M, then $10M) https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/137832/terraform-labs-ceo-do-kwon-seals-10-million-bet-over-luna-price Yuga Labs launches Apecoin, Apes buy Punks, teases metaverse, plans land sales, closes $450M raise led by a16z https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/03/18/what-is-apecoin-and-who-is-behind-it/ https://twitter.com/yugalabs/status/1505014986556551172 https://twitter.com/yugalabs/status/1502420714527334406?s=11 NFTs coming to Instagram? Minting + PFPs? https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/15/mark-zuckerberg-says-nfts-are-coming-soon-to-instagram/ Info on Axie Infinity https://research.thetie.io/axie-infinity/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to the chopping block.
0:04.5	Every couple of weeks, the usually four, but currently four, but three regulars of us get
0:08.9	together and give an industry and side of perspective on the crypto topics of the day.
0:12.9	So quick intros.
0:13.9	First we got Tom, the DeFi Maven and Master of Means.
0:16.7	Next we've got Robert, the crypto connoisseur and captain compound.
0:20.4	Then there's myself, Steve, I'm the head height man at Dragonfly and as special guests
0:24.5	today we have joining us, DoQuan, who is Chief Terrorist at Terrorist, sorry, I, I, I, I,
0:31.4	don't do that.
0:33.4	No.
0:34.4	DoQuan, one of the co-founders of Terror, the Terror Foundation and the, the LFG.
0:40.1	So the, the, the three of us are early stage investors into crypto.
0:44.4	DoQuan is a, is a founder in crypto, but I want to caveat that nothing that we say here
0:48.5	is investment advice or legal advice or even life advice.
0:52.1	DoQuan, how are you doing and apologize for, apologize for the intro, I was, I was
0:57.9	feeling myself.
0:58.9	No worries at all.
1:00.4	Yeah.
1:01.4	It's thanks for having me.
1:02.4	Yeah.
1:03.4	How's life in Thailand?
1:04.4	Oh, it's great.
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