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Why Terra Collapsed and Whether an Algo Stablecoin Can Ever Succeed - Ep.352 May 17, 2022

Show notes

Nic Carter, general partner at Castle Island Venture, Eric Wall, former Chief Investment Officer of Arcane Assets, and Erik Voorhees, founder of ShapeShift, discuss what happened with the TerraUSD (UST) and LUNA fiasco, Do Kwon’s responsibility, the impact on the crypto ecosystem, and much more. Show highlights:

how Erik used to feel that algo stablecoins were impossible and why he changed his mind
why Eric considers that the demand for UST was tied to a sh*tcoin
why Nic didn’t think LUNA would work
how a stablecoin could theoretically be decentralized
whether Nic, Eric, and Erik think this was a deliberate attack
why they think whether or not there was a deliberate attack is not even relevant
how the de-peg started with a liquidity issue on Curve
why Nic thinks that Terra’s biggest mistake was the 19.5% APY on Anchor
whether pursuing a decentralized stablecoin is a worthy goal
what aspects of UST were decentralized, according to Erik
whether algo stablecoins are dead or whether in the future, death spirals of algo stablecoins can be avoided
why Erik believes that everything in the crypto space is an experiment, even BTC
what it says that the VCs behind Terra knew were so reputable
why Do Kwon's arrogance and inexperience might have caused this chaos
whether Terra can be rebuilt
whether this collapse imposes risks on other blockchains and other assets
why the Luna Foundation Guard’s purchase of Bitcoin might have made the UST collapse even worse
what Erik thinks about the global financial system and the US dollar
how this event could trigger more regulation in the crypto space and why it might hurt the entire ecosystem
how regulators might use the Terra case to impose CBDCs.

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Episode Links

Erik Vorhees

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees

Eric Wall

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ercwl

Nic Carter

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nic__carter

Previous Unchained Coverage of Terra

Do Kwon on backing UST with BTC
- https://unchainedpodcast.com/do-kwon-is-backing-ust-with-bitcoin-and-heres-what-else-he-is-building/
Kevin Zhou on the risk of UST’s death spiral
- https://unchainedpodcast.com/heres-why-usdn-de-pegged-from-the-dollar-and-why-ust-might-too/
Jon Wu on how Terra got de-pegged:
- https://unchainedpodcast.com/did-someone-deliberately-attack-terra-luna-to-kick-off-a-death-spiral/

Terra

Twitter: https://twitter.com/terra_money
UST Mechanics: https://angelprotocol.medium.com/how-does-ust-work-ec7b2f6e2c2c
Luna Foundation Guard: https://lfg.org/team/
UST Bank Run: https://www.wsj.com/articles/crash-of-terrausd-shakes-crypto-there-was-a-run-on-the-bank-11652371839
Speculation of a deliberate attack: https://onchainwizard.substack.com/p/how-to-make-800m-in-crypto-soros?s=r
Do Kwon’s Proposed Terra’s Revival: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/05/13/do-kwon-proposes-restart-of-terra-blockchain-as-ust-luna-plummet/
Terra Blockchain Halted: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/12/luna-issuer-terra-halts-blockchain-after-week-of-losses/

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Did Someone Deliberately Attack Terra/Luna to Kick off a Death Spiral? - Ep.351 May 13, 2022

Show notes

Jon Wu, head of growth at Aztec Network, recaps a historically chaotic week in the Terra ecosystem that saw $UST depeg, Anchor depositors flee, and $LUNA fall 99%. Show highlights:

how $UST, $LUNA, Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), and Anchor Protocol are supposed to work
why Jon compares the Terra blockchain with VISA, LFG with the Fed, and Do Kwon with Jerome Powell
how a previous $UST de-peg foreshadowed this week’s dystopian price action
how a bitcoin short seemed to have kickstarted $UST’s depeg and why Jon thinks it was a deliberate attack
why Luna Foundation Guard originally purchased Bitcoin – and how that plan backfired and made the Terra death spiral even more violent
why $UST had such low liquidity this week – making it more susceptible to a bank run
what Jon’s predictions are for $UST and $LUNA going forward
what were the reasons behind Terra halting
why Jon does not think this will be the end of algorithmic stablecoins
why Jon thinks this should not affect ETH directly, even though there is a high amount of staked ETH in the Terra ecosystem

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Episode Links

Jon Wu

Twitter
- https://twitter.com/jonwu_

Jon’s Write-Up on the UST Depeg

Previous Unchained Coverage of Terra

Do Kwon on backing UST with BTC
- https://unchainedpodcast.com/do-kwon-is-backing-ust-with-bitcoin-and-heres-what-else-he-is-building/
Kevin Zhou on the risk of UST’s death spiral
- https://unchainedpodcast.com/heres-why-usdn-de-pegged-from-the-dollar-and-why-ust-might-too/

Terra:

Terra proposal to accelerate the burn of UST and increase the base pool: https://station.terra.money/proposal/1164
- https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/146254/terraform-labs-ceo-do-kwon-unveils-plan-to-restore-ust-peg
Terra halting the network: https://twitter.com/terra_money/status/1524785058296778752?s=20&t=FUJkFuN8PyxRoF9TCPgrGg
Terra going live again: https://twitter.com/terra_money/status/1524812171179327488?s=20&t=FUJkFuN8PyxRoF9TCPgrGg
Regulatory risks: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/146426/the-sec-has-already-sued-terraform-labs-it-has-every-reason-to-investigate-ust-lawyers-say

Other Recaps on Terra:

CoinDesk on how Do Kwon was behind previous algorithmic stablecoin: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/05/11/usts-do-kwon-was-behind-earlier-failed-stablecoin-ex-terra-colleagues-say/
Rekt: https://rekt.news/luna-rekt/

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Will Optimism's OP Token Draw People Back to Layer 2s on Ethereum? - Ep.350 May 10, 2022

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Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix, and Ben Jones, cofounder and chief scientist at Optimism Foundation, discuss the current state of Ethereum Layer 2s, Optimism’s new governance structure, why Synthetix chose to build on Optimism, and more. Show topics:

what Optimism and Synthetix are
how zero-knowledge rollups differ from optimistic rollups
why Synthetix decided to build on Optimism
what makes L2s more enticing to build on than other L1s
how Optimism’s governance is going to change with the launch of the Optimism Collective and OP token
what issues Synthetix has had with Discord governance and early token voting, and how they have now solved this by forcing users to consolidate wallet addresses
what retroactive public goods funding is and how it could create a “flywheel” of development on Optimism
why whales might be excluded from Optimism’s token grant to Synthetix
why Ben thinks the future is about the “superchain” rather than multi-chain
what Kain and Ben think about bridging between L2s and Mainnet
why Optimism is a staunch backer of EIP 4844
how the merge could affect Optimism and Synthetix

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Episode Links

Guests

Ben Jones: https://twitter.com/ben_chain
Kain Warwick: https://twitter.com/kaiynne

Synthetix

https://twitter.com/synthetix_io

Optimism

https://twitter.com/optimismPBC

Optimism Collective

https://optimism.mirror.xyz/gQWKlrDqHzdKPsB1iUnI-cVN3v0NvsWnazK7ajlt1fI

Synthetix Launching on Optimism

https://blog.synthetix.io/optimism-launch-announcement/

Synthetix Governance

https://docs.synthetix.io/governance/

Kain’s Blog

https://blog.synthetix.io/author/kain/

Rollups

What are the biggest risks to optimistic rollup chains?
- https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/05/rollup.html#:~:text=Anatomy%20of%20a%20fraud%20proof

What is the difference between optimistic and ZK rollups? And why did Synthetix choose Optimism?
- https://blog.matter-labs.io/optimistic-vs-zk-rollup-deep-dive-ea141e71e075

EIP 4844

The Merge

https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-ethereums-merge-was-delayed-and-why-it-wont-reduce-gas-fees-much/

Kain’s previous Unchained appearances

Ethereum killers episode
- https://unchainedpodcast.com/how-solana-and-binance-smart-chain-could-take-ethereums-lead/
How Synthetix became the second-largest DeFi platform
- https://unchainedpodcast.com/how-synthetix-became-the-second-largest-defi-platform/
DeFi summer
- https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-comp-5xed-on-day-1-and-what-this-means-for-a-defi-bull-market/

Optimism’s Bridging Solution

https://twitter.com/optimismPBC/status/1517548430297604096

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Should Yuga Labs Have Charged More For Its Otherside NFTs? - Ep.349 May 06, 2022

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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
Punk6529 thread:
- https://twitter.com/punk6529/status/1520697396119879680
CryptoGarga saying at least one term in the license would be changed:
- https://twitter.com/CryptoGarga/status/1520818410149617666

Otherdeed

Yuga Labs’ response to the sale:
- https://twitter.com/yugalabs/status/1520612362986078208
NFTs: https://opensea.io/collection/otherdeed
Canceling the Dutch auction
- https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/144298/yuga-labss-otherside-scraps-dutch-style-auction-for-nft-sale
0xcrumbs’s tweet showing there was more demand than supply:
- https://twitter.com/0xCrumbs/status/1520559050592817152?s=20&t=ngPe9YzByzwJbMa_N1hThw
CoinDesk coverage:
- https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/01/bayc-team-raises-285m-with-otherside-nfts-clogs-ethereum/
- https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/05/04/the-yuga-labs-catastrophe-could-have-been-prevented/

Smart Contract Conversation

Will Papper: https://twitter.com/WillPapper/status/1520592312379658241
Vitalik Buterin: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1520621813209784321

Kodas

https://medium.com/@jseid212/koda-rarity-ranking-the-newest-creatures-in-the-yuga-lab-ecosystem-9e6adba0ab68

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The Chopping Block: Did Andre Cronje Pull an Epic Crypto Rug Pull? - Ep.348 May 05, 2022

Show notes

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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RAC and David Greenstein on Why Music NFTs Are Better Than Spotify - Ep.347 May 03, 2022

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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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FTX Wants to Compete With CME -- Here's Why It's a Big Deal - Ep.346 Apr 29, 2022

Show notes

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/
Twitter:
- https://twitter.com/perkinscr97
CoinFund:
- https://twitter.com/coinfund_io

Coverage of the FTX.US Proposal

Unchained Coverage of FTX.US and LedgerX

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Amy Wu on Why FTX Is So Excited About Web3 Gaming - Ep.345 Apr 26, 2022

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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.

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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
- https://twitter.com/amytongwu/status/1504238389737967622
FTX Ventures
- https://ventures.ftx.com/

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
- https://twitter.com/amytongwu/status/1504095099873280005
Com2uS, a publicly-traded company, launched a token on FTX
- `https://twitter.com/amytongwu/status/1501675620832583684
FTX launch in Europe
- https://twitter.com/amytongwu/status/1500902895880974340
YGG India push for FTX
- https://twitter.com/amytongwu/status/1499075404887465994
FTX Future Fund
- https://ftxfuturefund.org/announcing-the-future-fund/
$400 million raise w/ plans for M&A’s
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-31/bankman-fried-s-ftx-valued-at-32-billion-after-latest-round

Miscellaneous

Blockchain gaming backlash
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgd78d/the-crypto-revolution-is-an-existential-crisis-for-video-games

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Why the SEC's Proposed Rules Affecting DeFi Could Violate the First Amendment - Ep.344 Apr 22, 2022

Show notes

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?

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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/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/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/
Coin Center blog on its comment: https://www.coincenter.org/a-new-sec-proposal-has-a-serious-change-hidden-within-its-complex-language/
Gabriel Shapiro’s comment: https://twitter.com/lex_node/status/1516079145213739013

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The Chopping Block: How to Improve DeFi and Cross-Chain Bridge Security - Ep.343 Apr 21, 2022

Show notes

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
why traditional publishers were reticent to publish the story revealing the alleged DAO attacker’s identity
what lessons can be learned from North Korea’s alleged involvement in the Ronin bridge exploit
what zero-knowledge proofs work and how a miscalculation in a whitepaper almost caused major issues in the crypto world this week
how math proofs and reporting specifications work in the crypto space
why security engineers, like samczsun, are so hard to come by
how an attacker was able to steal ~$80 million from Beanstalk in a governance attack
@hosseeb vs. @haseeb
the difference between being in crypto and covering it as a journalist – and why Laura sees herself as more a “referee” than a participant in the crypto space
whether DeFi hackers can actually cash out of their positions
why Tarun is worried about Ethereum’s security in the wake of the merge being delayed even further
what staking derivatives are, and how traditional are using Lido to lever up
why traditional funds getting into crypto has Tarun worried about Anchor
why the guys think Cosmos is more popular than Polkadot