Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. 

Show topics:

• Everyone’s impression of Laura’s interview with Do Kwon
• The importance to differentiate failure and fraud
• The Mango Markets hack and whether code is law
• What happened with the BNB hack and the concerns it raised about decentralization
• Magic Eden’s decision to enable optional royalties and the debate about NFT royalties
• How creators are going to find a way around the royalties, according to Robert
• Whether NFTs should be treated as securities

Hosts

• Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
• Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
• Robert Leshner, founder of Compound 
• Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital

Episode Links

Laura’s interview with Do Kwon:

Do Kwon of Terra: ‘It Was Never Really About Money or Fame or Success’

Hacks

• Mango Markets
• Mango Markets $42M Reimbursement Proposal Passes
• Mango Markets Exploiter Returns $67M After Revealing His Identity
• Mango Markets Hacker Proposes Keeping $70M ‘Bad Debt’ As Bounty
• Solana’s Mango Markets Sees $100M Drained in DeFi Exploit

• BNB
• BNB Smart Chain Plans Hard Fork In Response to $100M Exploit
• Binance Chain Was Halted Amid Hack Rumors

NFT Royalties

• Magic Eden
• Magic Eden Moves to Optional Royalties and Heats Up the Debate
• TCB Debate
• Tom’s tweet: “turns out people don’t want to pay royalties”
• Robert’s request for a startup
• Previous episodes of The Chopping Block debating NFT Royalties:
• The Chopping Block: Was This Gary Gensler’s Most Liked Tweet?
• The Chopping Block: Did OFAC Overstep by Sanctioning Tornado Cash?

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