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
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:
LayerZero controversy:
- James Prestwich’s tweet
- Bryan Pellegrino’s response
- Explanation of the situation by Bartek