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?
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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?
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