The Chopping Block: Do Aragon Association Members Get 'Fat Salaries' With 'Zero Accountability'? - Ep. 492

Published: May 14, 2023, 4 p.m.

Welcome to \u201cThe Chopping Block\u201d \u2013\xa0where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. In this episode, they talk about the recent issues surrounding the Aragon Foundation, the likelihood of Montenegro becoming an ETH hub, the BRC-20s mania, and much more!\n\nListen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.\n\nShow highlights:\xa0\n\nwhy Zuzalu is \u201cBurning Man in the daytime\u201d\n\nwhether Montenegro could become the \u201cETH El Salvador doppelganger\u201d\n\nwhy the Aragon Foundation alleged that they were under attack\n\nwhy Aragon has \u201cmissed the boat on a lot of everything that\u2019s happened in DAOs\u201d\n\nwhether the Aragon Foundation is \u201csuckling on the teat of the DAO for a fat salary\u201d\n\nwhether Arca was right about wanting the Aragon treasury to be part of the on-chain governance\n\nhow on-chain governance can do even more than many of the investment banking functions that exist currently\n\nwhy some Bitcoin developers want to censor BRC-20 transactions\n\nwhy the way XEN works gives Haseeb a headache\n\nwhether Binance CEO CZ invented the memecoin PEPE\n\nwhat the impact of Jump and Jane Street decreasing their market making activity is\n\nwhere the next market makers will come from\n\nHosts\n\n\nHaseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly\xa0\n\n\nRobert Leshner, founder of Compound\xa0\n\n\nTarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures\n\n\nTom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly\xa0\n\nDisclosures\nLinks\n\n\nUnchained:\xa0\n\nCoinbase Apologizes After Calling PEPE a \u2018Hate Symbol\u2019\n\nMarket Makers Jump and Jane Street Withdraw From U.S. Crypto Trading: Report\n\nCoinDesk: Aragon Cancels Planned Community Control of $200M Treasury Amid Battle With Activist Investors\n\n\nThe Block: Coinbase cuddles up to UAE policymakers as US outlook sours\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices