The Chopping Block: Is Coinbases Base the Binance Smart Chain for White People? - Ep. 463

Published: March 4, 2023, noon

In-person at ETH Denver, crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest crypto news. This week, Kyle Samani, scion of Solana, joins the show.\xa0\n\nShow highlights:\xa0\n\nwhy Coinbase decided to launch Base, a layer 2 on Ethereum and whether developers are building on it\n\nhow Coinbase might make money from it\n\nwhether it will be a permissioned, KYC\u2019ed chain that requires users to reveal their identities\xa0\n\nKyle's opinion on the allegedly fraudulent operations of FTX, in which his firm, Multicoin Capital, was an investor\n\nhow due diligence changed in the investing space after the collapse of FTX\n\nwhat the future of Paxos looks like now that its primary source of revenue, BUSD, was impacted\n\nwhy Kyle thinks the latest nearly 20-hour outage of Solana is different from previous outages\n\nwhat he\u2019s excited about in Solana now\n\nhow Jump, a VC firm, was able to \u201chack back\u201d $150 million in previously stolen assets after a court order\n\n\n\n\nHosts\n\n\nHaseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly\xa0\n\n\n\nTarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures\n\n\n\nTom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly\xa0\n\n\nGuest\nKyle Samani, managing partner at Multicoin Capital\nDisclosures\n\nLinks\nBase\n\nUnchained:\xa0\n\nCoinbase Launches Ethereum Layer 2 Network \u2018Base\u2019\n\nVideo\n\nSolana\n\nUnchained: Solana Attempts Two Chain Restarts After Near 20-Hour Outage\n\nFTX\n\nUnchained: FTX\u2019s Nishad Singh Charged With Fraud After Guilty Plea\n\nWormhole\n\nCoindesk: Oasis Exploits Its Own Wallet Software to Seize Crypto Stolen in Wormhole Hack\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices