The Chopping Block: Why Are We Still Building Layer 1s? - Ep. 487

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Laura Shin

News, Business News, Tech News

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in digital assets. In this live episode from Consensus 2023, they are joined by Avery Ching, chief architect of Aptos, to discuss the latest SEC enforcement actions, an embarrasing admission by audit firm Certik, and crypto’s impact on the coming election. 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: everyone's impressions of the conference why Korea has become a hub for crypto adoption why there's no benchmarking infrastructure to compare data across blockchains how Sui decided not to airdrop a token and what the implications for future airdrops are whether CertiK bears responsibility in the Merlin DEX rugpull whether the US elections have an effect on how the SEC is playing the case with Coinbase what impact AI will have on the crypto industry Hosts Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Guest Avery Ching, cofounder and CTO of Aptos Disclosures Links Unchained: Coinbase Seeks to Compel SEC Response to Rulemaking Petition Exploit or Rug Pull? $1.8 Million Drained From zkSync DEX Merlin Despite Audit SEC Sues Bittrex, Names Dash, Algorand and Other Tokens ‘Crypto Asset Securities’ CoinDesk: Sui Network to Issue Token Following Exchange Sale; Airdrop Hunters Dismayed 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 puns.
0:02.4	Now, your losses are on someone else's knowledge.
0:05.2	Generally speaking, air drops are kind of pointless anyways.
0:07.8	I manage trading firms who are very involved.
0:10.8	I like that eat the ultimate problem.
0:12.8	DeFi protocols are the antidote to this problem.
0:18.2	Hello, everybody.
0:19.8	Welcome to the chopping block.
0:21.6	Every couple of weeks, the four of us get together
0:23.3	and give the industry insight of perspective
0:25.0	on the crypto topics of the day.
0:27.3	So first up, we'll do some intros.
0:29.2	You've got Tom, the DeFi Maven, and Master of Needs.
0:32.0	Next, we've got Turun, the Gigabrain, and Grad Puba at Gaulet.
0:35.8	And today, we've got a special guest, Avery,
0:38.5	who is the chief architect of Aptos.
0:41.2	And finally, we've got myself on the seed
0:42.8	that had hype mad at Dragonfly.
0:44.7	So we are early-sage investors in crypto,
0:46.3	but I want to caveat that nothing we say here
0:48.1	is investment advice, legal advice, or even life advice.
0:50.9	Please see chopping block that XYZ for more disclosures.
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