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Unchained

The Chopping Block: Is Coinbase’s Base ‘the Binance Smart Chain for White People’? - Ep. 463

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Tech News, Business News

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In-person at ETH Denver, crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest crypto news. This week, Kyle Samani, scion of Solana, joins the show.  Show highlights:  why Coinbase decided to launch Base, a layer 2 on Ethereum and whether developers are building on it how Coinbase might make money from it whether it will be a permissioned, KYC’ed chain that requires users to reveal their identities  Kyle's opinion on the allegedly fraudulent operations of FTX, in which his firm, Multicoin Capital, was an investor how due diligence changed in the investing space after the collapse of FTX what the future of Paxos looks like now that its primary source of revenue, BUSD, was impacted why Kyle thinks the latest nearly 20-hour outage of Solana is different from previous outages what he’s excited about in Solana now how Jump, a VC firm, was able to “hack back” $150 million in previously stolen assets after a court order Hosts Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly  Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly  Guest Kyle Samani, managing partner at Multicoin Capital Disclosures Links Base Unchained:  Coinbase Launches Ethereum Layer 2 Network ‘Base’ Video Solana Unchained: Solana Attempts Two Chain Restarts After Near 20-Hour Outage FTX Unchained: FTX’s Nishad Singh Charged With Fraud After Guilty Plea Wormhole Coindesk: Oasis Exploits Its Own Wallet Software to Seize Crypto Stolen in Wormhole Hack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Not a dividend, it's a tale of two pun.

0:02.4

Now, your losses are on someone else's balance.

0:05.2

Generally speaking, air drops are kind of pointless anyways.

0:08.0

I manage trading firms who are very involved.

0:10.6

I like that heat of the ultimate problem.

0:12.8

DeFi protocols are the antidote to this problem.

0:16.8

Hello everybody, welcome to the Chavin Glock.

0:18.6

Every couple weeks we get together and give the industry

0:20.7

insiders perspective on the topics of the day.

0:23.4

So quick intro, first we've got Tom,

0:25.1

the DeFi Maven and Master of Memes.

0:27.0

Next we've got Turun.

0:27.8

The Gigabrain and Grand Provide,

0:29.1

I'm sorry I was about to say Robert's intro,

0:30.8

I just miss him so much.

0:32.0

But we've got a wonderful guest here today.

0:34.8

We've got Kyle Samani, the Sion of Salana.

0:37.9

And then we've got myself, I'm a CEO of the Headhead

0:39.8

Manager at Dragonfly.

0:41.3

We are early-season investors in crypto,

0:42.7

but I want to caveat that nothing we say here

0:44.2

is investment advice, legal advice, or even life advice.

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