The Chopping Block: NFA for Founders, Worldcoin and UniswapX Launch, Hamster Racing - Ep. 523

Unchained

Laura Shin

Tech News, Business News, News

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to The Chopping Block – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest news. This week, they debate whether infrastructure is being over-invested in, explore the potential of UniswapX and the controversial launch of Worldcoin’s token, and dive into the curious world of hamster racing in crypto. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights: why Tarun thinks EthCC Paris was much better than ETH Denver whether VCs are overinvesting in infrastructure why Haseeb believes that founders should focus on building applications rather than infrastructure whether the WRLD token is a new “Sam coin” what everyone thinks about Worldoin and the need to develop proof of personhood in crypto what is going on with hamster racing and whether this is the reason "normies hate crypto" UniswapX and its benefits (and tradeoffs) whether there is a shift toward intents-based trading Hosts Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Robert Leshner, founder of Compound Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures Disclosures Links Unchained: Worldcoin Launches Token on Mainnet, Plans to Deploy 1,500 Eyeball Scanning Orbs UniswapX Launches With MEV Protection and Gas Free Swaps Is Sam Altman's Worldcoin the End of People's Privacy? Decrypt: You Can Now Bet Crypto on Hamster Races. What Could Go Wrong? What do I think about biometric proof of personhood? By Vitalik Buterin Paradigm: Intent-Based Architectures and Their Risks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Not a dividend.
0:01.2	It's a tale of two puns.
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'm just trading for a sewer.
0:09.7	Very involved.
0:10.7	I like that heat that's the ultimate problem.
0:12.8	DeFi protocols are the antidote to this problem.
0:17.4	Hello, everybody.
0:18.1	Welcome to the chopping block.
0:19.3	Every couple weeks, the four of us get together
0:20.8	and give the industry insider's perspective
0:22.4	on the crypto topics of the day.
0:24.2	The quick intro is first you've got Tom,
0:25.6	the DeFi Maven and Master of Memes.
0:27.8	Next, you've got Robert, the crypto connoisseur,
0:29.4	and the Tsar of Superstate.
0:31.5	Then we've got Turun, the Gigabrain, and Grand Puba at Gauntlet.
0:34.4	And finally, I'm a CEO of the head height,
0:36.0	Manit Dragonfly.
0:37.3	So we are early stage investors in crypto,
0:38.6	but I want to caveat that nothing we say here
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