The Chopping Block: Did Andre Cronje Pull an Epic Crypto Rug Pull? - Ep.348

May 5, 2022

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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:

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