The Chopping Block: Why Canto, Up Nearly 500% This Month, Has Its Haters - Ep. 452

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English - February 04, 2023 08:30 - 59 minutes - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
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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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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