Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Robert Leshner, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. On this[…]
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The Chopping Block: How to Improve DeFi and Cross-Chain Bridge Security
Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. On this episode, Laura[…]

The Chopping Block: Why ‘One Man’s Bug Is Another Man’s Bounty’
Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. Show topics:[…]

Ethereum 2.0: What You Need to Know
Ryan Watkins and Wilson Withiam, senior research analysts at Messari, explain the nuts and bolts of Ethereum 2.0, including how it will transform ETH as an asset and why they[…]

Andre Cronje of Yearn Finance on YFI and the Fair Launch: ‘I’m Lazy’
Andre Cronje, the developer of yearn.finance, talks about all things DeFi and the past, present, and future of yEarn. In this episode, he discusses: what Yearn Finance is, and what[…]

Olaf Carlson-Wee: ‘If There Is a Money-Losing Exploit, the Money Is Gone’
Olaf Carlson-Wee, the founder and CEO of Polychain Capital, goes deep into yield farming, fair launches and how decentralization will upend the traditional notion of the corporation. In this episode,[…]

DeFi Yield Farming: Why It’s All the Rage But Risky
Dan Elitzer, investor at IDEO CoLab Ventures, and Will Price, data scientist at Flipside Crypto, discuss the yield farming craze. In this episode, we cover: the goals of protocols offering[…]

Why COMP 5xed on Day 1 and What This Means for a DeFi Bull Market
Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix, discusses the launch of the COMP token this week, including: why the price of COMP tokens popped how this now meant that the governance of[…]

How to Decentralize a Crypto Project Without Harming Security
Jesse Walden of Variant Fund, and Robert Leshner of Compound explain all of the problems associated with the decentralizing process in terms of governance and compliance, pulling from their own[…]