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. Since Robert Leshner couldn’t make it, Laura also decided to hop on the show too! Show topics:

how Terra is trying to rebuild
what its value proposition is
why Laura is surprised at how fast Do Kwon began shitposting again
how teams affected by the Terra collapse, like Delphi Digital and Mars Protocol, are responding
how its implosion will affect Cosmos
why Tarun thinks Osmosis’ purchase of Keplr was the “best” purchase in crypto history
whether the collapse of UST could help Cosmos in the long run
what the legal implications of UST’s depeg will be
whether Terra was a fraud like Theranos
why Tarun thinks that investors should be sued for getting clients involved in Terra
why Tarun thinks regulators are against 24-hour trading
why Tarun thinks Matt Levine is a “boomer”
what FTX’s chances are in getting approval from the CFTC to be the engine for 24-hour derivatives trading
why NFTs are denominated in ETH/SOL instead of fiat
why Tom doesn’t think airdrops matter
what went wrong with the OP token drop

Hosts

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
https://twitter.com/hosseeb
Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital
https://twitter.com/tomhschmidt
Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
https://twitter.com/tarunchitra

Guest

Laura Shin, host of Unchained
https://twitter.com/laurashin

Show Topics

Terra revival plan
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/terra-blockchain-restart-approved
LUNA 2.0
https://fortune.com/2022/05/30/do-kwon-luna-2-airdrop-plunges/
LUNA airdrop calculation issues:
https://twitter.com/terra_money/status/1531410663674888192
https://agora.terra.money/t/terra-ecosystem-revival-plan-2-passed-gov/18498
Delphi Digital
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/147755/delphi-digital-admits-we-were-wrong-on-terra-stablecoin-risks
Luna Classic
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/149361/mirror-protocol-suffers-new-exploit-and-could-be-drained-in-hours
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/149342/a-90-million-defi-exploit-on-terra-went-unnoticed-for-seven-months
Korean prosecutors are looking to crackdown on Terra
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/149309/terraform-labs-employees-summoned-korea-prosecutors-ust-luna
Adam Neumann crypto project
https://www.vox.com/recode/23142106/adam-neumann-crypto-carbon-credit-offset-flowcarbon
FTX and CFTC and CME
https://twitter.com/aguye_/status/1529547230318718976
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/143792/as-it-weighs-ftx-proposal-cftc-announces-a-roundtable-on-disintermediation
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/148786/cftc-roundtable-on-ftx-proposal-highlights-barriers-in-clearing-of-digital-vs-physical-assets
Farmers vs FTX
https://twitter.com/fintechfrank/status/1531605653269188608
CME word salad
https://twitter.com/fintechfrank/status/1524811596421382144
Optimism Airdrop
https://twitter.com/epolynya/status/1531719021833334784?s=21&t=MoImAkB4p8qwOV3p63sSnw
https://dune.com/hildobby/op-airdrop

Unchained Coverage on Optimism

https://unchainedpodcast.com/will-optimisms-op-token-draw-people-back-to-layer-2s-on-ethereum/

Unchained Coverage on Osmosis and Keplr

https://unchainedpodcast.com/how-osmosis-is-trying-to-improve-the-crypto-user-experience/

Unchained Coverage on FTX x CFTC

https://unchainedpodcast.com/ftx-wants-to-compete-with-cme-heres-why-its-a-big-deal/

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