Unchained

Eric Golden, the owner of BAYC #7560 and host of Web3 Breakdowns, discusses the Otherdeed NFT drop that stalled Ethereum and burned over $150 million worth of ether. Show topics:

• what the Otherdeed mint is 
• Why Yuga Labs had buyers undergo a know-your-customer process in order to mint the NFTs
• why Eric was pretty certain a gas war was imminent in the hours leading up to the mint
• how KYC’d addresses played into the Otherdeed mint
• what Eric thought about Yuga Labs’s decision to scrap a Dutch auction in favor of a flat minting price
• why Eric does not believe Yuga Labs purposefully botched their smart contract, as many in the Ethereum community alleged
• why Eric was frustrated with Yuga Labs’s response on Twitter to the mint 
• why Eric does not think Otherside needs its own chain
• what effect the Otherdeed mint is having on other Yuga Labs-adjacent assets like ApeCoin and Bored Ape Yacht Club
• what Kodas are and why they are trading for tens of thousands of dollars
• why Eric is confident that Yuga Labs is well-positioned to follow through on their promises to build out a metaverse game

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Episode Links

Eric Golden

• https://twitter.com/ericgoldenx

Otherside

• https://otherside.xyz/

Otherdeed License

• ​​https://otherside.xyz/license

Otherdeed

• Yuga Labs’ response to the sale:

Smart Contract Conversation

• Will Papper: https://twitter.com/WillPapper/status/1520592312379658241

Kodas

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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 episode, Andre Cronje, the recently retired (sort of) DeFi developer, also joined the conversation. Show topics:

Hosts

Guest

Show Topics

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André Allen Anjos, who is better known as the crypto-friendly artist RAC, and David Greenstein, co-founder of Sound.xyz, a web3 music platform, analyze the current state of the web3 music scene and discuss how artists can leverage web3 tools to get paid at fair market value for their art. 

Show highlights:

RAC’s experience in the traditional music industry

why David believes music is the most undervalued sector in the world – and how Sound and crypto can help value it correctly

the different types of NFTs with which musicians like RAC are experimenting

what Sound.xyz is and how it is helping artists unlock their fanbase and community

why David is so passionate about creating a social experience when it comes to music NFTs

Sound.xyz’s decision to allow artists to deploy their own smart contracts

what RAC has made in NFT drops compared to Spotify streams

why Sound.xyz was built with “editions” as the most common format for NFTs sold on the platform

what makes blockchain technology well-suited for the music industry

RAC’s crypto adventures: $TAPE, $RAC, and more …

how the famous “Amen Break” sample would work as an NFT

what artists will be measured by in the NFT world

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Episode Links

David Greenstein

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgreenstein/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dgreenstein1?lang=en

RAC

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RAC

Website: https://rac.fm/

Crypto Adventures

RAC Token

https://etherscan.io/address/0xc22b30e4cce6b78aaaadae91e44e73593929a3e9

https://v2.info.uniswap.org/pair/0xf744417d0a5fd18b5b18726ce1b48f931dfa32ea

https://blog.ourzora.com/home/introducing-rac

https://www.billboard.com/pro/rac-nfts-social-token-platform-racos-web3/

Music NFTs (w/ Sound.xyz embeds)

https://rac.fm/nfts

Discord

https://discord.com/invite/rac

Tokenized cassette tape

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/64760/ethereum-tokenized-cassette-dj-rac-zora-grammy

Sound.xyz

Website

https://www.sound.xyz/

FAQs

https://soundxyz.notion.site/soundxyz/Frequently-Asked-Questions-1-0e39e44edccb42f8b3c3ca5d93c703a9

Recent raise

https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/15/sound-xyz-raises-5m-from-a16z-to-explore-how-web3-can-upend-the-economics-of-the-music-business/

Recent drops that are fun

Bored Ape Yacht Club Band

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Chris Perkins, president of CoinFund, a web3 investment firm, discusses his experience at the Crypto Bahamas conference before diving into an FTX.US proposal that would allow for direct trading of crypto derivatives in the US – which appears to be rocking the boat of certain regulators in D.C. Show topics:

• Chris’s two biggest takeaways from his Crypto Bahamas experience
• how Chris’s experience at Lehman Brothers and Citi prepared him for crypto 
• what issues arise via the plumbing of traditional financial markets
• why centralized intermediaries make derivatives trading efficient
• what FTX.US is proposing and how it could be a boon for retail traders
• how crypto settlement would work compared to the current batch trading method
• why the acquisition of LedgerX enabled FTX.US to make this proposal
• what license FTX.US feels like it no longer needs since it can settle derivative transactions on a blockchain
• whether FTX.US would expand to other derivatives and what that might do to an entity like CME
• what Chris is listening for in the CFTC’s public discussion surrounding FTX.US’s proposal 
• whether FTX.US’s proposal will be a partisan issue

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Episode Links

Chris Perkins

• LinkedIn: 
• • ​​https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-perkins-092569a/

Coverage of the FTX.US Proposal

• Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-21/crypto-billionaire-rankles-wall-street-with-futures-trading-plan?sref=m9L277rN 
• Forbes:
• • https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbrett/2022/04/27/the-ftx-us-proposal-that-shook-congress-and-the-crypto-derivatives-world/
• The Block:

Unchained Coverage of FTX.US and LedgerX

• 2021:

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Amy Wu, head of FTX ventures and gaming initiatives, discusses her role at FTX, what problems need to be addressed in the web3 gaming world, and her thoughts on APE and Yuga Labs as a board member of Apecoin DAO and investor in Yuga Labs. Show highlights:

• what Amy does at FTX
• how her background investing in gaming prepared her for her role at FTX
• Amy’s vision for FTX’s gaming studio
• how FTX is helping gaming studios get into web3 and NFTs
• why Amy thinks blockchain games are the evolution of the ‘free to play’ gaming archetype
• what best practices Amy believes web2 companies should implement when transitioning into web3 gaming
• why there is so much backlash against traditional companies incorporating NFTs (hint: it’s not just about environmental concerns)
• how FTX Ventures is looking to deploy capital and why it is so interested in Korea and India, specifically
• why Amy thinks the L1 wars will end with just a few winning chains
• why “consumer products” are going to be more important than high throughput blockchains in onboarding the next billion users
• what Amy’s role as a board member of Apecoin DAO is like
• what Amy thinks about APE and Yuga Labs
• trends for the rest of 2022: social media, dating apps, and more…

Tickets to the Cryptopians Book Clubs Go on Sale Today at 1pm ET!

Today, Tuesday, April 26, at 1pm Eastern Time, we will sell the NFT tickets to five book clubs to discuss my book, The Cryptopians. All the book clubs, which are 90 minutes and limited to 22 participants each, will be hosted by me and will take place on my Discord from May 2nd to May 10th. The sale will will take place on Bitski: bitski.com/@laurashin/created

The dates and times for the book clubs are: 

• Monday, May 2, at 8 pm ET 
• Tuesday May 3, at 1pm ET with Lefteris Karapetsas, Griff Green, and Christoph Jentzsch of the DAO
• Thursday, May 5, at 12pm
• Monday, May 9, at 12pm ET with Andrey Ternovskiy of Chatroulette
• Tuesday, May 10, at 3pm ET

Again, the link for the sale is at https://www.bitski.com/@laurashin/created. 

Also, join me for a Twitter Spaces, hosted by Bitski (https://twitter.com/bitski), at 12pm ET today. 

Unchained Is Hiring! 

Find out information on the three openings at Unchained and how to apply here: 

• part-time remote social media marketing manager:
• •  https://unchainedpodcast.com/seeking-part-time-remote-social-media-and-marketing-manager/

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Episode Links

Amy Wu

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amytongwu/ 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/amytongwu 

Roles

• FTX Gaming
• • https://twitter.com/amytongwu/status/1495834891858100232
• Apecoin DAO Board

FTX Stuff Going On

• NFT lounge at Coachella
• • https://twitter.com/amytongwu/status/1515407892693745665
• FTX Ventures x SuperteamDAO (India)
• • https://twitter.com/ajm_ftx/status/1510339725059629058
• Acquisition of Good Luck Games
• • https://twitter.com/amytongwu/status/1506308327399063557
  • • Backlash
    • `https://kotaku.com/nft-crypto-blcckchain-storybook-brawl-card-f2p-steam-re-1848708120 
• FTX Africa

Miscellaneous

• Blockchain gaming backlash

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Peter Van Valkenburgh, director of research at Coin Center, discusses a proposed rule by the US Securities and Exchange Commission that has massive implications for the free-speech rights of crypto software developers in the US. Show highlights:

• why an SEC proposal changing the definition of “exchange” could violate the right to free speech of US crypto developers
• whether the SEC is going after DeFi on purpose – as its 200+ page proposal never mentions crypto or DeFi
• what precedent Peter has found that should prohibit the SEC from taking away software developers’ right to free speech
• how Peter and Coin Center structured their recent letter of comment to the SEC
• what the next steps (such as a lawsuit?) should be for the crypto community if the rule goes into effect 
• why writing software is part of someone's right to free speech
• what implications the proposed rule could have on AMMs
• what happens next: when could the rule be put into place?

Unchained is hiring! 

Find out information on the three openings at Unchained and how to apply here: 

• part-time remote social media marketing manager: https://unchainedpodcast.com/seeking-part-time-remote-social-media-and-marketing-manager/

Announcing The Cryptopians Book Clubs!

On April 26th, I will be selling NFT tickets to five 90-minute virtual book clubs in which 22 people can discuss "The Cryptopians" with me and with each other — without worrying about spoilers! Two of the book clubs will also feature special guests. 

The sale will go live on Tuesday, April 26, at 1pm ET/10am PT,  and tickets will be $100 each. (The sale will be on Bitski, but the NFTs will not be visible until the sale goes live on the 26th): https://www.bitski.com/@laurashin/created

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Episode Links

Peter Van Valkenburgh

• Coin Center profile: https://www.coincenter.org/people/peter-van-valkenburgh/

The SEC Proposal

• Proposal: ​https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-10# 
• Comments on the proposal: https://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-02-22/s70222.htm 
• Coin Center’s/Peter’s comment: https://www.coincenter.org/a-new-sec-proposal-has-a-serious-change-hidden-within-its-complex-language/

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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 Shin, the host of Unchained and author of The Cryptopians, also joined the conversation. Show topics:

• how people have responded to The Cryptopians

Episode Links

Hosts

• Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
• • https://twitter.com/hosseeb
• Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital
• • https://twitter.com/tomhschmidt
• Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures

Helpful Information

• North Korea’s interest in crypto: 

• Beanstalk rekt for $180M
• • https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/142272/ethereum-based-stablecoin-protocol-beanstalk-loses-more-than-80-million-to-exploit
  • Crazy attack using flash loans to insta-ship governance proposals: https://rekt.news/beanstalk-rekt/

• The Cryptopians

• UST and Anchor worries

• https://unchainedpodcast.com/heres-why-usdn-de-pegged-from-the-dollar-and-why-ust-might-too/

• Lido and centralization

• https://www.suresats.com/post/ethereum-s-centralization-dilemma-through-lido-staking

• Cosmos vs. Polkadot

• MakerDAO technical docs

• https://docs.makerdao.com/

• Zero-Knowledge explainer

• https://www.notboring.co/p/zero-knowledge

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Two policy experts, Chris Lehane, chief strategy officer at Haun Ventures, and Niki Christoff, the founder of Christoff and Co., discuss how the crypto industry has performed in Washington and how it can better educate more regulators and politicians about the technology. Show highlights: 

• Niki and Chris’ background
• how Niki and Chris would grade the performance of crypto companies in Washington
• what parallels Chris can draw between crypto in the 2020s and FAANG in the mid-90s
• whether having a plethora of crypto policy groups helps or hurts crypto in Washington
• whether calling politicians and regulators names and making memes of them helps or hurts the crypto industry
• an effective way crypto companies can prompt lawmakers and regulators to prioritize crypto policy
• why it can be strategically smarter to try to convince incumbents to adopt pro-crypto policy over supporting challengers
• why Chris thinks crypto could be a bipartisan topic
• what Chris and Niki think about the fact that Democratic candidates received more donations from people working in the crypto industry than Republicans did
• the three types of crypto users that are valuable to political candidates
• what Niki and Chris would tell Senator Elizabeth Warren about crypto if they were to meet with her today
• what effect crypto might have on midterms
• why the terminology native to crypto may have to change

Unchained is hiring! 

Find out information on the three openings at Unchained and how to apply here: 

• part-time remote social media marketing manager: https://unchainedpodcast.com/seeking-part-time-remote-social-media-and-marketing-manager/

Announcing The Cryptopians Book Clubs!

On April 26th, I will be selling NFT tickets to five 90-minute virtual book clubs in which 22 people can discuss "The Cryptopians" with me and with each other — without worrying about spoilers! Two of the book clubs will also feature special guests. 

The sale will go live on Tuesday, April 26, at 1pm ET/10am PT,  and tickets will be $100 each. (The sale will be on Bitski, but the NFTs will not be visible until the sale goes live on the 26th): https://www.bitski.com/@laurashin/created

Here is the schedule: 

• Monday May 2, at 8pm ET/5pm PT with Laura Shin
• Tuesday, May 3, at 7pm CET/1pm ET/10am PT with guests Christoph Jentzsch, Lefteris Karapetsas, and Griff Green 
• Thursday, May 5, at 6pm CET/12pm ET/9am PT with Laura Shin
• Monday, May 9, at 6pm CET/12pm ET/9am PT with guest Andrey Ternovskiy
• Tuesday, May 10, at 9pm CET/3pm ET/12pm PT with Laura Shin

If you'd like to participate, be sure to mark your calendars for the sale time on April 26th. Hope to see you in one of the book clubs!

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Episode Links

Chris Lehane

• LinkedIn: ​https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-lehane-2562535/ 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrislehane 
• Joining Haun Ventures

Niki Christoff

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikichristoff/ 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/NikiChristoff 

Miscellaneous Links

• Overview of crypto and politics

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Tim Beiko, the Ethereum Foundation coordinator for core developers, discusses his recent estimation that Ethereum’s merge, where the network transitions from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, will be delayed until the second half of 2022. Show topics:

• what the Ethereum merge is 
• why an upcoming difficulty bomb could force developers to delay the merge
• what shadow forks are and how they affect the decision to go forward with the merge
• how network difficulty is used in Ethereum to keep a balance between the blockchain and miners
• Tim’s (purposefully vague) timeline for the merge
• how the merge could increase Ethereum’s throughput by 9% – and thus potentially reduce gas fees slightly
• how the Ethereum Foundation plans to address gas fees and scaling issues post-merge

Announcing The Cryptopians Book Clubs!

On April 26th, I will be selling NFT tickets to five 90-minute virtual book clubs in which 22 people can discuss "The Cryptopians" with me and with each other — without worrying about spoilers! Two of the book clubs will also feature special guests. 

The sale will go live on Tuesday, April 26, at 1pm ET/10am PT,  and tickets will be $100 each. (The sale will be on Bitski, but the NFTs will not be visible until the sale goes live on the 26th): https://www.bitski.com/@laurashin/created

Here is the schedule: 

• Monday May 2, at 8pm ET/5pm PT with Laura Shin
• Tuesday, May 3, at a time TBD with guests Christoph Jentzsch, Lefteris Karapetsas, and Griff Green 
• Thursday, May 5, at 6pm CET/12pm ET/9am PT with Laura Shin
• Monday, May 9, at 6pm CET/12pm ET/9am PT with guest Andrey Ternovskiy
• Tuesday, May 10, at 9pm CET/3pm ET/12pm PT with Laura Shin

If you'd like to participate, be sure to mark your calendars for the sale time on April 26th. Hope to see you in one of the book clubs!

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Episode Links

Tim Beiko

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/TimBeiko 

Related Content

• Tim’s post on the merge FAQs:
• • https://github.com/timbeiko/eth-roadmap-faq#merge-timelines
• Tim’s tweets from this week:

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Stuart Levi, co-head of the Technology Transaction and Intellectual Property Group at Skadden Arps, and Marta Belcher, general counsel and Head of Policy at Protocol Labs, break down the legal issues surrounding NFTs specifically in the context of Yuga Labs’ recent purchase of CryptoPunks and Meebits IP rights. Show highlights:

• the definitions and differences between copyrights, trademarks, and rights of publicity (name, image, likeness)
• how NFT projects have evolved in the past 12-18 months and what that means for the rights of NFT holders
• why NBA Top Shot’s licensing model is the best model for famous brands entering the NFT space
• how the popularity of PFPs and the open-source ethos of crypto has led to confusion regarding the commercial rights of NFT holders
• what you are getting when you buy an NFT (hint, it’s not copyright)
• the misconceptions surrounding Yuga Labs’ acquisition of Crypto Punks and Meebits
• why Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT holders most likely cannot use the Bored Ape Yacht Club brand or logo
• what issues web3 projects face in getting NFT holders to accept terms and conditions
• why web3 projects should protect their trademark
• what a Creative Commons license is, and how it can be used in the NFT space
• what sort of licenses exist in the NFT space
• why secondary sales and transfers of NFTs pose such massive problems for copyright and trademark owners
• how marketplaces are handling terms and conditions
• what NFT projects can do to help the transfer of copyrights and trademarks

Announcing The Cryptopians Book Clubs!

On April 26th, I will be selling NFT tickets to five 90-minute virtual book clubs in which 22 people can discuss "The Cryptopians" with me and with each other — without worrying about spoilers! Two of the book clubs will also feature special guests. 

The sale will go live on Tuesday, April 26, at 1pm ET/10am PT,  and tickets will be $100 each. (The sale will be on Bitski, but the NFTs will not be visible until the sale goes live on the 26th): https://www.bitski.com/@laurashin/created

Here is the schedule: 

• Monday May 2, at 8pm ET/5pm PT with Laura Shin
• Tuesday, May 3, at a time TBD with guests Christoph Jentzsch, Lefteris Karapetsas, and Griff Green 
• Thursday, May 5, at 6pm CET/12pm ET/9am PT with Laura Shin
• Monday, May 9, at 6pm CET/12pm ET/9am PT with guest Andrey Ternovskiy
• Tuesday, May 10, at 9pm CET/3pm ET/12pm PT with Laura Shin

If you'd like to participate, be sure to mark your calendars for the sale time on April 26th. Hope to see you in one of the book clubs!

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Episode Link:

Marta Belcher

Stuart Levi

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartlevi/

Content on NFT IP/Legal Issues

• Josh Durham on IP rights and NFTs
• • https://lexdao.substack.com/p/protecting-your-nft-personal-property-rights?s=r
• Punk 6529 on CryptoPunks and Yuga Labs
• • https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1502595586960367617.html
• Decrypt on stolen IP
• • https://decrypt.co/96637/nfts-have-a-problem-with-copyright-theft
• Why IP rights are meaningless
• • https://twitter.com/nftlawguy/status/1509233036369416192
• IP questions from DC Investor
• • https://twitter.com/iamDCinvestor/status/1509187304027529222
• The Copyright NFT bible

Difference between copyright and trademark

• ​​https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/small-business/trademark-vs-copyright

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