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
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
Links
Disclosures
Bitcoin NFTs:
The Block: What are Bitcoin NFTs Ordinals and how do they work?
BTC: Core On-chain - Glassnode Studio
Bitcoin - The Overview
Ordinals
Canto:
The Block: Layer 1 blockchain Canto sees surge in trading activity
Canto - Lending
LayerZero controversy:
James Prestwich’s tweet
Bryan Pellegrino’s response
Explanation of the situation by Bartek
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