Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. This week, it’s time for a case study: Special guest Pacman, founder of Blur, explains how his upstart NFT marketplace fought OpenSea and won.
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Pacman, founder of Blur
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Erik Voorhees' New Venture: Why AI Desperately Needs Privacy and Uncensorability - Ep. 645
The Chopping Block: EigenLayer Airdrop, LayerZero's Sybil Strategy, and Robinhood vs. SEC – What’s Shaping Crypto’s Future? - Ep. 644
How the Top One-Third of FTX Creditors Are Boosting the Payouts for Everyone Else - Ep. 643
Bits + Bips: Does Macroeconomics Point to a Potential Crypto Supercycle? - Ep. 642
Why Memecoins Have Been 2024's Most Profitable Crypto Trade: Ansem and Kelxyz - Ep. 641
Why EigenLayer Gave Away More Tokens After Widespread Criticism of Its Stakedrop - Ep. 640
The Chopping Block: EigenLayer Airdrop Fallout, Shkreli vs. Io.net, and CZ's Sentencing - Ep. 639
Bitcoin Layer 2s Aim to Attract Ethereum-Like Dapps. Will They Succeed? - Ep.638
Consensys’s Lawsuit Against The SEC: Will It End Gensler's ‘Unlawful Power Grab’? - Ep. 637
The Chopping Block: Uniswap's SEC Scrutiny, Token2049 Flood Catastrophe, and Bitcoin's Halving Impact - Ep. 636
The US vs. Crypto: Jake Chervinsky on Crypto's Legal and Regulatory Status - Ep. 635
After the Bitcoin Halving, Will the Runes Protocol Live Up to the Hype? - Ep. 634
Arthur Hayes and Will Clemente on How This Bitcoin Halving Is Different - Ep. 633
Gary Gensler’s Case Against Uniswap: Does the SEC Even Stand a Chance? - Ep. 632
The Chopping Block: The EVM Parallelization Dilemma, Solana's Network Congestion, and Avi Eisenberg's Legal Battle - Ep. 631
Polygon’s AggLayer Wants to Be a Hub for Ethereum Layer 2s. Can It Succeed? - Ep. 630
Ethena’s USDe Grew to $2 Billion in 7 Weeks. Is It Safe? - Ep. 629
The Chopping Block: The Dawn of the DeFi Civil War - Ethena, SBF, Blast & More - Ep. 628
The Real Reason Why the SEC Might Be Going After Ethereum - Ep. 627
How 'a Criminal Choice' Got Sam Bankman-Fried a 25-Year Prison Sentence - Ep. 626
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