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

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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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