The Chopping Block: Was This Gary Gensler's Most Liked Tweet? - Ep. 405

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

Show topics:

Whether crypto optimism is different in Asia than in the United States

How Sam Bankman-Fried has been doing some work with US regulators

How the CFTC lawsuit against Ooki DAO changed people’s perspectives about the regulator

Whether the lawsuit could make all DeFi illegal and the role of DAOs to coordinate governance

The SEC settlement with Kim Kardashian for $1.26 million, Gensler’s video explaining the case and whether it was a publicity stunt

Why Tarun would fire almost everyone at the CFTC and the SEC to hire more technical people

How the NFT QQL collection censored a marketplace in its code

What the whole purpose of NFTs is, according to Haseeb

The debate around NFT royalties and their enforcement

How a huge portion of the blocks in Ethereum are generated by Flashbots and whether it represents a centralizing force

Whether MEV should be stopped or accelerated

Hosts

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital

Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures

Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital

Guest
Laura Shin, author, and host of Unchained

Episode Links

The lawsuit against Ooki DAO
Previous Coverage of Unchained on Ooki DAO:

Why the Ooki DAO Case Could Hurt Participation in DAOs

Kristin Smith on Why Crypto Legislation Could Be Passed by Year’s End

CFTC Filing

$250,000 fine

Nik’s article

CFTC Commissioner Summer Mersinger’s dissenting statement

CFTC serving the members of the Ooki DAO via their forum

Tim Copeland’s article on what’s next for DAOs

A federal court ruled that the CFTC legally served Ooki DAO through a website help bot.

The LeXpunK Army filed a motion for amicus status in the SEC case against bZx/Ooki DAO.

Crypto group DeFi Education Fund argued that the CFTC should properly serve Ooki DAO’s actual members, not just the DAO at large.

NFT Royalties
Tyler Hobbs’ QQL $17 million collection

QQL blacklist explanation

NFT platform hits back

Previous episode of The Chopping Block debating NFT Royalties

Article: Why NFT Creators and Collectors Can’t Stop Talking About Artist Royalties

Article: NFT Royalties: Why artists love them, and traders don’t

SEC charges against Kim Kardashian
The SEC fined reality TV star Kim Kardashian $1.26 million for promoting a crypto security without proper disclosure.

Fortune article on the Kim Kardashian settlement as publicity stunt

eMax price spiked

Gary Gensler’s video

Flashbots and MEV
Post-merge relay drama

What is MEV

Proposer-Builder separation:

MEV Boost

Flashbots auctions

Previous Coverage of Unchained on MEV: Why Is Ethereum Trying to Maximize Value From Users?