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Unchained

The Chopping Block: Will Modular Blockchains Win? - Ep. 501

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Business News, Tech News

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 63 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. In this episode, the gang answers audience questions, digs into the discourse around rollups, and debates whether modular blockchains will vanquish existing monoliths. 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:  How someone asked people to just give them money, and raised over $1 million Answering audience questions from Twitter, including ‘what’s Tarun’s favorite drug?’ Whether there’s tension between Haseeb and Tarun How the incoming generations of crypto people (e.g. “Class of 2017”) have changed over the cycles The five-level explainer on what a rollup is  Why everyone’s debating the ontology of rollups and why Haseeb still thinks blockchains are like religions Tarun’s take on the modular blockchain thesis and why Haseeb is skeptical Whether app chains like the ones in Cosmos will become dominant Whether one of the top 4 chains will be modular in the next five to 10 years 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 Binance Feed: Bored Ape NFT Holder Ben.eth Launches Third Crusade of Memecoin Psychopathy Rollups, Rigor, and Reality by Kelvin Fichter Rollups Are L1s (& L2s) a.k.a. How Rollups *Actually Actually Actually* Work by Jon Charbonneau Haseeb’s question on Twitter Previous episode of The Chopping Block on the L1 debate: Why Are We Still Building Layer 1s? 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 made the trading firms who were very involved.

0:10.7

I like that eat the ultimate problem.

0:12.8

DeFi protocols are the antidote to this problem.

0:16.7

Hello, everybody.

0:17.4

Welcome to the chopping block.

0:18.6

Every couple of weeks, the four of us get together

0:20.1

and give the industry insider's perspective

0:21.8

on the crypto topics of the day.

0:23.5

So first, quick intro is we got Tom, the DeFi Maven,

0:25.7

and Master of Memes.

0:27.1

Next, we've got Robert, the crypto connoisseur,

0:28.8

and Captain of Compound.

0:30.4

Then we've got Taroon, the Gigabrain,

0:31.8

and Grand Puba at Gauntlet.

0:33.8

And finally, I've received the head height management

0:35.5

of Dragonfly.

0:36.6

So we are early stage investors in crypto,

0:38.0

but I want to caveat that nothing we say here

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