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Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the year 2022 in the crypto industry and share their biggest winners and losers of the year, what were the best mechanisms, the biggest surprises and the best memes, and their predictions for the upcoming year.\n\xa0\nShow topics:\n\xa0\n\nwhy stablecoin bulls performed so well in 2022, as well as journalism, DeFi, and the EVM\n\nhow the reputation of the industry suffered tremendously in 2022\n\nhow Solana had to endure multiple hacks and challenges and whether it\u2019s having its \u201cETH moment\u201d\xa0\n\nwhether ETH is the only crypto with good tokenomics\n\nwhy MEV has seen such a massive adoption, even if it\u2019s technically not good for crypto\xa0\n\nwhy the investment landscape changed so much in June\n\nwhether Arbitrum is the winner among layer 2s on Ethereum and the role of retroactive airdrops\n\nwhy so many lending companies went bust this year\n\nwhether proof of reserves is a useful concept\n\nwhether developers will go back to build on Ethereum rather than alternative layers 1s\n\n\xa0\n\xa0\nHosts\n\nHaseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital\n\n\nTarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures\n\n\nRobert Leshner, founder of Compound\xa0\n\n\nTom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital\n\n\xa0\nLinks\n\xa0\nLast year's episode:\nThe Chopping Block... 2021 in Crypto: The Biggest Winners, Biggest Losers, and Best Memes - Unchained Podcast\n\xa0\nFTX:\n\nThe Chopping Block: Can Exchange CEOs Like SBF Be Crypto True Believers?\n\nThe Chopping Block: FTX: The Biggest Collapse in the History of Crypto?\n\nThe Chopping Block: Why Lenders Didn't Liquidate Alameda When It Was Underwater\n\nThe Chopping Block on FTX/Alameda: Is Sam Bankman-Fried 'Crypto Kanye'?\n\nThe Chopping Block: SBF Wants to Win in the Court of Public Opinion. Will He?\n\nThe Chopping Block: Was FTX a Scam From the Very Beginning?\n\n\xa0\nTornado Cash\n\nThe Chopping Block: Why DeFi May Be Over-Complying With Tornado Cash Sanctions\n\nThe Chopping Block: Did OFAC Overstep by Sanctioning Tornado Cash?\n\nSolana\n\nThe Chopping Block: Anatoly Yakovenko on Why Solana Is Building the SAGA Phone\n\nThe Chopping Block: Why Solana\u2019s Frequent Downtime Doesn't Bother Kyle Samani\n\nTerra:\n\nThe Chopping Block: Kevin Zhou on Why He Knew Terra Would Crash\xa0\n\nThe Chopping Block: Does the New Terra Have Any Chance?\xa0\n\nOthers:\n\nThe Chopping Block: Here\u2019s What Was So Bad About Three Arrows Capital\xa0\n\nThe Chopping Block: SBF on a Crazy Week of Bitfinex, Wormhole and ENS Drama\xa0\n\nThe Chopping Block: Do Kwon Pitches a Decentralized NFT Publishing Service\n\nThe Chopping Block: Did Andre Cronje Pull an Epic Crypto Rug Pull?\xa0\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices