Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. Show topics:
- their thoughts on The DAO hacker reveal
- the importance of The DAO and why it made Robert fall in love with crypto
- how the alleged attacker was found (feat. a deep dive into the Morden testnet and Wasabi)
- dumb DAOs: why the guys are unimpressed with DAOs seeking to purchase, among other things, the Denver Broncos and fast-food restaurants
- how to fix price discovery for DAO mergers and acquisitions
- whether Anchor’s 20% yield on UST is sustainable in light of Luna Foundation Guard’s decision to backstop its reserves with $1 billion in BTC
- why deploying funds from a large treasury is difficult
- why the BlockFi fine was not a surprise
- what lessons the BlockFi settlement taught crypto companies
- why Tarun still loves Olympus DAO and OHM
- how EthDenver has changed since the NFT boom
Hosts
- Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
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- Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital
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- Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
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- Robert Leshner, founder of Compound
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Show Topics:
- The DAO attacker revealed
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- DAO trying to buy the Denver Broncos
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- Fries DAO
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- BlockFi Agrees to Pay $100 Million in Penalties and Pursue Registration of its Crypto Lending Product
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- Terra and UST receiving backstopped funds
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- OHM bonds as Vol-reduction strategy
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