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The Chopping Block: Are Layer 2s Stealing Ethereum’s Thunder? - Ep. 484
About this episode
Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Robert Leshner, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. In this episode, the gang plays “guess the chart” and takes a deep dive into the booming world of Ethereum Layer 2s.
Show highlights:
how much Layer 2s are spending to post data to Ethereum
whether L2s suck up all the value of ETH
the challenge of providing a good user experience across multiple rollups
how the underlying technology of security is not improving but attackers are getting more sophisticated
whether centralized lending in the industry is dead
why crypto users still hold stablecoins that yield much lower than Treasury bills
the new approach to bringing real-world assets and tokenized yields to blockchains
whether all L2s are running via proof of authority
whether alternative Layer 1s are dead or are actually more important than ETH L2s
Hosts
Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly
Robert Leshner, founder of Compound
Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly
Disclosures
Links
Hildebert’s charts
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