The Chopping Block: Will Modular Blockchains Win? - Ep. 501

Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner, chop it up about the latest news. In this episode, the gang answers audience questions, digs into the discourse around rollups, and debates whether modular blockchains will vanquish existing monoliths.

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Show highlights:

How someone asked people to just give them money, and raised over $1 million

Answering audience questions from Twitter, including ‘what’s Tarun’s favorite drug?’

Whether there’s tension between Haseeb and Tarun

How the incoming generations of crypto people (e.g. “Class of 2017”) have changed over the cycles

The five-level explainer on what a rollup is

Why everyone’s debating the ontology of rollups and why Haseeb still thinks blockchains are like religions

Tarun’s take on the modular blockchain thesis and why Haseeb is skeptical

Whether app chains like the ones in Cosmos will become dominant

Whether one of the top 4 chains will be modular in the next five to 10 years

Hosts

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly

Robert Leshner, founder of Compound

Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly

Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures

Disclosures

Links

Binance Feed: Bored Ape NFT Holder Ben.eth Launches Third Crusade of Memecoin Psychopathy

Rollups, Rigor, and Reality by Kelvin Fichter

Rollups Are L1s (& L2s) a.k.a. How Rollups *Actually Actually Actually* Work by Jon Charbonneau

Haseeb’s question on Twitter

Previous episode of The Chopping Block on the L1 debate: Why Are We Still Building Layer 1s?

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