Unchained

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

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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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