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, they cover:
- why Bitcoin maximalists are mad about Bitcoin NFTs
- why Robert thinks Bitcoin is not a good blockchain on which to build things
- why Canto, a layer 1 blockchain, surged in price and activity and why Haseeb is anti-Canto
- how Ethereum will have multi-dimensional fee structures
- what the role of applications in generalized blockchains should be and why they think they shouldn't be enforced at the base layer
- the accusations against the LayerZero team and their response
- the battle to provide the bridging services to Uniswap
Hosts
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Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
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Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
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Robert Leshner, founder of Compound
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Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital
Links
Disclosures
Bitcoin NFTs:
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The Block: What are Bitcoin NFTs Ordinals and how do they work?
- BTC: Core On-chain - Glassnode Studio
- Bitcoin - The Overview
- Ordinals
Canto:
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The Block: Layer 1 blockchain Canto sees surge in trading activity
- Canto - Lending
LayerZero controversy:
- James Prestwich’s tweet
- Bryan Pellegrino’s response
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Explanation of the situation by Bartek
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