Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. This week, Laurence Day, smart-contract sleuth and co-founder of Wildcat Finance, joins the show to discuss the ramifications of the Curve Finance exploit that has the DeFi world talking.

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Show highlights:

• how Curve Finance, one of the most prominent DeFi protocols, got hacked
• why maintaining different coding languages and clients is so hard
• whether developers are responsible for this kind of attack
• whether Curve founder Michael Egorov’s loans in Aave and Fraxlend have put DeFi at risk
• how the loan in Fraxlend impacted the liquidation price of the Aave loan
• Tarun’s reaction to the situation, given that his firm Gauntlet has tried to mitigate these risks in the past
• how people in the community worked together to keep DeFi safe and resilient
• why Tarun got canceled on LinkedIn
• what happened with the BALD meme coin mania on Base

Hosts

• Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly
• Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly
• Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures

Guest:

• Laurence Day, co-founder of Wildcat Finance

Disclosures

Links

• Unchained:
• BALD Token Falls 90% Amid Rug Pull Allegations
• $60 Million in ETH Bridged to Coinbase Layer 2 Base
• Curve Founder’s Liquidation Could Trigger Chaos for DeFi
• $52 Million Drained in Curve Finance Pools Exploit
• Curve Exploit Results in Largest MEV Block Rewards in Ethereum’s History
• CoinDesk:
• Curve Founder Deploys New Liquidity Pool to Address FRAX Debt Situation
• Spooked by Curve Liquidation Threat, DeFi Protocols Shore Up Defenses
• Aave Should Block Curve Token Borrowing, Risk Management Firm Proposes
• After the Curve Attack: What's Next for DeFi?

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