Welcome to \u201cThe Chopping Block\u201d \u2013\xa0where 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.\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\nHow someone asked people to just give them money, and raised over $1 million\n\nAnswering audience questions from Twitter, including \u2018what\u2019s Tarun\u2019s favorite drug?\u2019\n\nWhether there\u2019s tension between Haseeb and Tarun\n\nHow the incoming generations of crypto people (e.g. \u201cClass of 2017\u201d) have changed over the cycles\n\nThe five-level explainer on what a rollup is\xa0\n\nWhy everyone\u2019s debating the ontology of rollups and why Haseeb still thinks blockchains are like religions\n\nTarun\u2019s take on the modular blockchain thesis and why Haseeb is skeptical\n\nWhether app chains like the ones in Cosmos will become dominant\n\nWhether one of the top 4 chains will be modular in the next five to 10 years\n\nHosts\n\n\nHaseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly\xa0\n\n\nRobert Leshner, founder of Compound\n\n\nTom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly\xa0\n\n\nTarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures\n\nDisclosures\nLinks\n\nBinance Feed: Bored Ape NFT Holder Ben.eth Launches Third Crusade of Memecoin Psychopathy\n\n\n\nRollups, Rigor, and Reality by Kelvin Fichter\n\n\nRollups Are L1s (& L2s) a.k.a. How Rollups *Actually Actually Actually* Work by Jon Charbonneau\n\nHaseeb\u2019s question on Twitter\n\nPrevious episode of The Chopping Block on the L1 debate: Why Are We Still Building Layer 1s?\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices