The Chopping Block: The Inside Story of How Blur Toppled NFT Giant OpenSea - Ep. 459
b'Welcome to \\u201cThe Chopping Block\\u201d \\u2013 where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. This week, it\\u2019s time for a case study: Special guest Pacman, founder of Blur, explains how his upstart NFT marketplace fought OpenSea and won.\\n\\nShow highlights:\\xa0\\n\\nwhat it\\u2019s like to launch a token\\n\\nwhy Blur was created and what its strategy was for competing with OpenSea\\n\\nwhy royalties remain a lightning rod in the NFT community\\n\\nhow Blur designed its liquidity mining program and the lesson learned from failed designs\\n\\nthe reasons why Blur succeeded in the NFT marketplace environment\\n\\nPacman\\u2019s reaction to OpenSea\\u2019s decision to not enforce royalties\\n\\nwhy forking the Blur code won\\u2019t work for new marketplace competitors\\n\\nwhy the NFT market remained strong in the depths of a bear market\\n\\nwhy Pacman thinks AMMs for NFTs won\\u2019t work\\n\\nwhether the \\u201cdeath of royalties\\u201d is good or bad for the ecosystem\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHosts\\n\\n\\nHaseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly\\xa0\\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\\xa0\\n\\nGuest\\nPacman, founder of Blur\\nTwitter\\nDisclosures\\nPrevious coverage on NFT royalties:\\n\\nThe Chopping Block: Two on Two Debate: NFT Royalty Throwdown!\\n\\nAre NFT Royalties the Way? How to Build a Sustainable Creator Economy\\n\\nLinks\\n\\nDune: Blur VS OpenSea \\n\\n\\nBlog post: How to earn royalties on Blur\\n\\n\\nOpenSea\\u2019s response\\n\\n\\n\\nUnchained:\\xa0\\n\\nOpenSea Eliminates Marketplace Fee, Makes Creator Royalties Optional\\n\\nBlur Airdrops 360M Tokens to NFT Traders\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'