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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