The Chopping Block: Did Andre Cronje Pull an Epic Crypto Rug Pull? - Ep.348
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:
- why being doxxed led to Andre retiring (sort of) from crypto
- Andre’s response to Robert who calledl his departure from DeFi “an epic rug pull”
- why Andre is back – and why he is working on “regulated” crypto products
- how the Otherside KYC’d NFT drop was an “absolute fail”
- where identity fits into the crypto space and why traditional and DeFi institutions alike are interested in the identity of their users
- Dalle 2
- why the Bored Ape community likely sees the Yuga Labs Otherdeed NFT sale as a turning point
- why Robert would compare buying a BAYC NFT last year to purchasing BTC in 2010
- main takeaways from Solana’s seven-hour outage and why designing a mempool (or multiple) is critical for the chain
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
- https://twitter.com/tarunchitra
- Robert Leshner, founder of Compound
- https://twitter.com/rleshner
Guest
- Andre Cronje, DeFi OG
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andre-cronje
Show Topics
- Andre Cronje’s Retirement
- https://unchainedpodcast.com/this-defi-og-is-leaving-crypto/
- Andre Cronje’s return to regulated crypto
- https://andrecronje.medium.com/crypto-regulation-vs-regulated-crypto-aae56b36dcd8
- Solana outage
- https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/144639/solana-restarted-after-seven-hour-outage-caused-by-surge-of-transactions
- https://twitter.com/0xEdgar/status/1521188981538537472
- https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/metaplex-program-library/pull/417
- Yuga Labs rakes in $317MM from the sale of Otherside land NFTs and causes huge congestion on Ethereum.
- https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/144549/otherside-land-nfts-sell-out-in-hours-as-yuga-labs-rakes-in-317-million
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