The Chopping Block: Is Coinbase’s Base ‘the Binance Smart Chain for White People’? - Ep. 463

In-person at ETH Denver, crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest crypto news. This week, Kyle Samani, scion of Solana, joins the show. 

Show highlights: 

why Coinbase decided to launch Base, a layer 2 on Ethereum and whether developers are building on it

how Coinbase might make money from it

whether it will be a permissioned, KYC’ed chain that requires users to reveal their identities 

Kyle's opinion on the allegedly fraudulent operations of FTX, in which his firm, Multicoin Capital, was an investor

how due diligence changed in the investing space after the collapse of FTX

what the future of Paxos looks like now that its primary source of revenue, BUSD, was impacted

why Kyle thinks the latest nearly 20-hour outage of Solana is different from previous outages

what he’s excited about in Solana now

how Jump, a VC firm, was able to “hack back” $150 million in previously stolen assets after a court order

Hosts

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly 

Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures

Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly 

Guest
Kyle Samani, managing partner at Multicoin Capital
Disclosures

Links
Base

Unchained: 

Coinbase Launches Ethereum Layer 2 Network ‘Base’

Video

Solana

Unchained: Solana Attempts Two Chain Restarts After Near 20-Hour Outage

FTX

Unchained: FTX’s Nishad Singh Charged With Fraud After Guilty Plea

Wormhole

Coindesk: Oasis Exploits Its Own Wallet Software to Seize Crypto Stolen in Wormhole Hack

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In-person at ETH Denver, crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest crypto news. This week, Kyle Samani, scion of Solana, joins the show. 

Show highlights: 

why Coinbase decided to launch Base, a layer 2 on Ethereum and whether developers are building on it
how Coinbase might make money from it
whether it will be a permissioned, KYC’ed chain that requires users to reveal their identities 
Kyle's opinion on the allegedly fraudulent operations of FTX, in which his firm, Multicoin Capital, was an investor
how due diligence changed in the investing space after the collapse of FTX
what the future of Paxos looks like now that its primary source of revenue, BUSD, was impacted
why Kyle thinks the latest nearly 20-hour outage of Solana is different from previous outages
what he’s excited about in Solana now
how Jump, a VC firm, was able to “hack back” $150 million in previously stolen assets after a court order

Hosts

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly 

Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures

Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly 

Guest

Kyle Samani, managing partner at Multicoin Capital

Disclosures

Links

Base

Unchained: 
Coinbase Launches Ethereum Layer 2 Network ‘Base’
Video

Solana

Unchained: Solana Attempts Two Chain Restarts After Near 20-Hour Outage

FTX

Unchained: FTX’s Nishad Singh Charged With Fraud After Guilty Plea

Wormhole

Coindesk: Oasis Exploits Its Own Wallet Software to Seize Crypto Stolen in Wormhole Hack

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