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Tarun Chitra on whether Code is Law | Layer Zero

Mar 15, 2022

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Is Defy a Good Law?

01:00

Can a Nation State Regulate Crypto?

01:52

The Scaling Up and Scaling Down of a Law With Ta Douv

01:43

The Leap Frog Could Just, Like, Be a Good Way to Innovate

01:28

Introduction

5min

Are You More Analytical or Artistic?

5min

New York City - I've Been in New York for 11 Years.

2min

Is Brooklyn a New Shelling Point for Crypto?

4min

Crypto in Argentina

2min

Is the US Going to Be Last in the Aggregator Game?

2min

The Leab Frogging of the United States

4min

The Hare in a Tortoise in the Har Race

2min

Is There a Legal Separation of Local Verse National Rights?

4min

10.

Is the Pandemic a Catalist?

2min

11.

The Pandemic and Regulation

3min

12.

Is There a New Frame of Reference Between Crypto Regulation and Nation State Regulation?

4min

13.

What Is the Importance of Information and Misinformation Candle Worms

2min

14.

Unis Wap Grants - A New Paradime in Cryptocurrency

3min

15.

Can We Really Live Forever?

4min

16.

Doo Governin Structures

2min

17.

The Scaling Up and Scaling Down of a Law With Ta Douv

2min

18.

Can We Really Outsource the Federal Government?

3min

19.

Do We Exit Serf Dum in Our Lifetime?

2min

20.

Financial Law Defys, Isn't It?

2min

21.

The Law of the Jungle

4min

22.

Taking the Rules of Defi Into Accountability

3min

23.

Do You Believe in Codis Law?

2min

24.

Cryptocurrency

2min

25.

Defy, Is It Really a Theorium?

2min

26.

Isn't Finance, This Is Law?

3min

27.

My Favorite Proofs of Mathematical Problems

2min

28.

How Do You Conquer Thousands of Words Into One Mem?

2min

29.

The Singularity

3min

Tarun Chitra, in addition to being Founder and CEO of Gauntlet, is a gigabrain, polymath type in the Ethereum space. His fluency in mathematics results in a creative, almost artistic approach to a traditionally rigorous and analytical field.

Perhaps related to his search for beauty, Tarun observes the structural changing of massive systems happening in the broader geopolitical ecosystem today. We explore the relationship between regulation and finance in a unique light. Finance itself is fundamentally a legal practice—it’s money plus law.

Finance becomes more elegant with smart contracts, and we muse on the idea that broader governance structures can improve with smart contracts as well. Is code law? Can we generalize capital efficiency?

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Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro

4:30 Tarun Chitra

8:15 New York City & Boom Cities

14:00 Global Crypto

18:00 Leapfrogging the US

27:45 Governance & Regulation

31:55 The Fundamental Crypto Shift

35:53 The Great Re-Shuffling

43:08 What Works vs What Doesn’t

48:07 Core Blockchain Governance

52:40 Scaling with DAOs

1:00:00 Upgrading Financial Law

1:09:00 Code is Law

1:14:05 Tarun’s Approach to Life

1:20:34 Optimism through Beauty

1:26:00 Basins and Sinking to Elegance

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Resources:

Tarun on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/tarunchitra?s=20&t=-Wk1FKVJz6cQrJM6EzusdQ

Gauntlet:

https://twitter.com/gauntletnetwork?s=20&t=-Wk1FKVJz6cQrJM6EzusdQ

Episode with Santi Siri:

https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/-santiago-siri-layer-zero?s=w

Fundamental Theorem of Algebra

https://www.britannica.com/science/fundamental-theorem-of-algebra

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