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Exploring today's crypto topics through the perspective of industry insiders @hosseeb, @rleshner, @tarunchitra & @tomhschmidt! 🤝 Streaming via @Unchained_pod

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The Chopping Block@_choppingblock·
The banks showed up late to the yield fight. CME is trying to box out Hyperliquid. Prediction markets might end up at the Supreme Court. And Tarun still doesn't care about regulation. The regulation bonanza episode with @RebeccaRettig1 ⤵️ Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:10 The CLARITY Act: Banks vs Crypto 05:21 The "Do Stuff Yield" Compromise 07:18 The Compromise: Transaction-Based Rewards 10:22 Presidential Ethics: The Last Sticking Point 12:26 What Actually Changes If CLARITY Passes? 16:01 Token Founders: What Do You Have to Do? 18:41 Developer Protection & DeFi Activity 20:15 CME & ICE Lobbying Against Hyperliquid 26:05 On-Chain Finance vs DeFi 29:57 Who Wins US Regulated Perps? 34:39 ETF Options vs Crypto Perps 40:24 What Hyperliquid Means for Investment Banking 44:50 Retail IPO Participation & Dynamic Share Counts 49:25 Prediction Markets: Kalshi & Polymarket vs the States 51:40 Supreme Court Showdown: CFTC vs State Gaming Laws 58:30 Economic Impact Test 01:01:47 Tokenized Securities & the SEC Innovation Exemption 01:06:41 Do Issuers Actually Care About Tokenization? 🔥Stay updated with all the latest hot takes by following and subscribing to @_ChoppingBlock and @unchained_pod! 🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/JPjrq72wTsg 🎧 Spotify: bit.ly/3wiIOyy 🍎 Apple: bit.ly/3w9HQ7J 🎙 Podcast Home: choppingblock.xyz
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Why is TradFi lobbying against crypto perps right now? "Everybody's waiting for perps guidance from the CFTC. They've been preparing it, and they've been getting ready for it" "I don't know if some traditional financial players either saw it, caught wind of it, heard what it was gonna be, and maybe thought it was too permissive" "CME is unbelievably powerful. And they haven't been challenged for a very long time" "I think they're seeing this disruption coming" – @RebeccaRettig1
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What's the status on CLARITY and developer protection? "It touches frontends, it touches software developers under BRCA, there is a whole new section under 301 about controlling developers – and treasury gets to define who control over a protocol" "I don't think we're done under the developer protection side. I think we really have to hold the line" "If you don't feel like you can actually build a protocol here in a safe way without having to register as a money transmitter or something like that, I don't think we've done our jobs." – @RebeccaRettig1
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@RebeccaRettig1 dropping knowledge.
The Chopping Block@_choppingblock

The banks showed up late to the yield fight. CME is trying to box out Hyperliquid. Prediction markets might end up at the Supreme Court. And Tarun still doesn't care about regulation. The regulation bonanza episode with @RebeccaRettig1 ⤵️ Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:10 The CLARITY Act: Banks vs Crypto 05:21 The "Do Stuff Yield" Compromise 07:18 The Compromise: Transaction-Based Rewards 10:22 Presidential Ethics: The Last Sticking Point 12:26 What Actually Changes If CLARITY Passes? 16:01 Token Founders: What Do You Have to Do? 18:41 Developer Protection & DeFi Activity 20:15 CME & ICE Lobbying Against Hyperliquid 26:05 On-Chain Finance vs DeFi 29:57 Who Wins US Regulated Perps? 34:39 ETF Options vs Crypto Perps 40:24 What Hyperliquid Means for Investment Banking 44:50 Retail IPO Participation & Dynamic Share Counts 49:25 Prediction Markets: Kalshi & Polymarket vs the States 51:40 Supreme Court Showdown: CFTC vs State Gaming Laws 58:30 Economic Impact Test 01:01:47 Tokenized Securities & the SEC Innovation Exemption 01:06:41 Do Issuers Actually Care About Tokenization? 🔥Stay updated with all the latest hot takes by following and subscribing to @_ChoppingBlock and @unchained_pod! 🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/JPjrq72wTsg 🎧 Spotify: bit.ly/3wiIOyy 🍎 Apple: bit.ly/3w9HQ7J 🎙 Podcast Home: choppingblock.xyz

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Arjun
Arjun@clipsofcrypto·
Onchain Finance vs DeFi Rebecca on why we need to start making this distinction "Hyperliquid is more like onchain finance versus DeFi. I think we have to start making that distinction in a meaningful way" "Onchain finance has the onchain part, a lot of the non-custodial aspects we'd expect, but you have closed source code, a narrow set of permissions. That's different from the hallmarks of what we've long talked about as DeFi" "Are you just a coder doing a GitHub commit or are you creating a much larger onchain transparent market? Everyone's going to hate on me on Twitter. They already do. It's fine"
The Chopping Block@_choppingblock

The banks showed up late to the yield fight. CME is trying to box out Hyperliquid. Prediction markets might end up at the Supreme Court. And Tarun still doesn't care about regulation. The regulation bonanza episode with @RebeccaRettig1 ⤵️ Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:10 The CLARITY Act: Banks vs Crypto 05:21 The "Do Stuff Yield" Compromise 07:18 The Compromise: Transaction-Based Rewards 10:22 Presidential Ethics: The Last Sticking Point 12:26 What Actually Changes If CLARITY Passes? 16:01 Token Founders: What Do You Have to Do? 18:41 Developer Protection & DeFi Activity 20:15 CME & ICE Lobbying Against Hyperliquid 26:05 On-Chain Finance vs DeFi 29:57 Who Wins US Regulated Perps? 34:39 ETF Options vs Crypto Perps 40:24 What Hyperliquid Means for Investment Banking 44:50 Retail IPO Participation & Dynamic Share Counts 49:25 Prediction Markets: Kalshi & Polymarket vs the States 51:40 Supreme Court Showdown: CFTC vs State Gaming Laws 58:30 Economic Impact Test 01:01:47 Tokenized Securities & the SEC Innovation Exemption 01:06:41 Do Issuers Actually Care About Tokenization? 🔥Stay updated with all the latest hot takes by following and subscribing to @_ChoppingBlock and @unchained_pod! 🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/JPjrq72wTsg 🎧 Spotify: bit.ly/3wiIOyy 🍎 Apple: bit.ly/3w9HQ7J 🎙 Podcast Home: choppingblock.xyz

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Hyperliquid priced Cerebras better than Morgan Stanley. "the data must flow"
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banks really thought they could stop crypto "I don't think they realized the infinite ingenuity of crypto companies to figure out how to do exactly what they want, no matter what the law says"
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Haseeb ＞|＜@hosseeb·
Update: this is happening. Next week, @Lighter_xyz vs @variational_io debate order books vs RFQ for RWAs on The Chopping Block. Stay tuned!
Vladimir Novakovski@vnovakovski

@hosseeb Congrats on the investment! Always great to see builders in the space with new ideas. As a side note, look forward to debating the merits of order books ("CLOB" as a term makes no sense!) vs RFQ vs AMM for efficient onchain price discovery - perhaps on a future Chopping Block?

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"It's a lot scarier to make the CME your enemy than Binance. CME has much bigger guns" Haseeb on why Hyperliquid has poked the hornet's nest in finance "Binance is Binance, they're powerful but what are they gonna do? Push up a meme coin? But if CME is coming after you, they can make your life very very difficult" "That seems to be what they're trying to do. TBD if they will succeed but it's very clear, you've poked the hornet's nest because you're playing in the biggest game in the world"
The Chopping Block@_choppingblock

The banks showed up late to the yield fight. CME is trying to box out Hyperliquid. Prediction markets might end up at the Supreme Court. And Tarun still doesn't care about regulation. The regulation bonanza episode with @RebeccaRettig1 ⤵️ Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:10 The CLARITY Act: Banks vs Crypto 05:21 The "Do Stuff Yield" Compromise 07:18 The Compromise: Transaction-Based Rewards 10:22 Presidential Ethics: The Last Sticking Point 12:26 What Actually Changes If CLARITY Passes? 16:01 Token Founders: What Do You Have to Do? 18:41 Developer Protection & DeFi Activity 20:15 CME & ICE Lobbying Against Hyperliquid 26:05 On-Chain Finance vs DeFi 29:57 Who Wins US Regulated Perps? 34:39 ETF Options vs Crypto Perps 40:24 What Hyperliquid Means for Investment Banking 44:50 Retail IPO Participation & Dynamic Share Counts 49:25 Prediction Markets: Kalshi & Polymarket vs the States 51:40 Supreme Court Showdown: CFTC vs State Gaming Laws 58:30 Economic Impact Test 01:01:47 Tokenized Securities & the SEC Innovation Exemption 01:06:41 Do Issuers Actually Care About Tokenization? 🔥Stay updated with all the latest hot takes by following and subscribing to @_ChoppingBlock and @unchained_pod! 🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/JPjrq72wTsg 🎧 Spotify: bit.ly/3wiIOyy 🍎 Apple: bit.ly/3w9HQ7J 🎙 Podcast Home: choppingblock.xyz

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Haseeb ＞|＜@hosseeb·
Crypto regulation is getting serious and moving markets: > CLARITY is imminent > Banks lost to Coinbase > Hyperliquid scaring the TradFi incumbents > Kalshi/Polymarket fighting the states > The SEC may bless tokenized securities Must-watch deep dive with @RebeccaRettig1 ⤵️
The Chopping Block@_choppingblock

The banks showed up late to the yield fight. CME is trying to box out Hyperliquid. Prediction markets might end up at the Supreme Court. And Tarun still doesn't care about regulation. The regulation bonanza episode with @RebeccaRettig1 ⤵️ Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:10 The CLARITY Act: Banks vs Crypto 05:21 The "Do Stuff Yield" Compromise 07:18 The Compromise: Transaction-Based Rewards 10:22 Presidential Ethics: The Last Sticking Point 12:26 What Actually Changes If CLARITY Passes? 16:01 Token Founders: What Do You Have to Do? 18:41 Developer Protection & DeFi Activity 20:15 CME & ICE Lobbying Against Hyperliquid 26:05 On-Chain Finance vs DeFi 29:57 Who Wins US Regulated Perps? 34:39 ETF Options vs Crypto Perps 40:24 What Hyperliquid Means for Investment Banking 44:50 Retail IPO Participation & Dynamic Share Counts 49:25 Prediction Markets: Kalshi & Polymarket vs the States 51:40 Supreme Court Showdown: CFTC vs State Gaming Laws 58:30 Economic Impact Test 01:01:47 Tokenized Securities & the SEC Innovation Exemption 01:06:41 Do Issuers Actually Care About Tokenization? 🔥Stay updated with all the latest hot takes by following and subscribing to @_ChoppingBlock and @unchained_pod! 🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/JPjrq72wTsg 🎧 Spotify: bit.ly/3wiIOyy 🍎 Apple: bit.ly/3w9HQ7J 🎙 Podcast Home: choppingblock.xyz

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Arjun@clipsofcrypto·
"The banks were very unsophisticated. They didn't realize the infinite ingenuity of crypto companies to figure out how to do exactly what they want, no matter what the law says" Haseeb on the stablecoin yield fight between banks and crypto in the Genius Act "The Genius Act originally said stablecoin yield, basically go for it. There were some restrictions but it's more or less very easy to circumvent the rules" "The banks caught on to this and were like oh no you didn't. They are trying to railroad in the first past bill" "The intention was that these are not banks, they shouldn't be allowed to pay yield. Then the banks realized you can just find a way to make it a rewards program and it basically just pays yield"
The Chopping Block@_choppingblock

The banks showed up late to the yield fight. CME is trying to box out Hyperliquid. Prediction markets might end up at the Supreme Court. And Tarun still doesn't care about regulation. The regulation bonanza episode with @RebeccaRettig1 ⤵️ Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:10 The CLARITY Act: Banks vs Crypto 05:21 The "Do Stuff Yield" Compromise 07:18 The Compromise: Transaction-Based Rewards 10:22 Presidential Ethics: The Last Sticking Point 12:26 What Actually Changes If CLARITY Passes? 16:01 Token Founders: What Do You Have to Do? 18:41 Developer Protection & DeFi Activity 20:15 CME & ICE Lobbying Against Hyperliquid 26:05 On-Chain Finance vs DeFi 29:57 Who Wins US Regulated Perps? 34:39 ETF Options vs Crypto Perps 40:24 What Hyperliquid Means for Investment Banking 44:50 Retail IPO Participation & Dynamic Share Counts 49:25 Prediction Markets: Kalshi & Polymarket vs the States 51:40 Supreme Court Showdown: CFTC vs State Gaming Laws 58:30 Economic Impact Test 01:01:47 Tokenized Securities & the SEC Innovation Exemption 01:06:41 Do Issuers Actually Care About Tokenization? 🔥Stay updated with all the latest hot takes by following and subscribing to @_ChoppingBlock and @unchained_pod! 🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/JPjrq72wTsg 🎧 Spotify: bit.ly/3wiIOyy 🍎 Apple: bit.ly/3w9HQ7J 🎙 Podcast Home: choppingblock.xyz

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@StarPlatinum_ If you make money as a degenerate, even at your peak, you’ll still be a degenerate. — gainzy (2025)
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StarPlatinum@StarPlatinum_·
Ben Armstrong once ran the biggest crypto YouTube channel. Bad deals, scam promos, and internal problems took him down. He was kicked out, divorced, begged for $120K, and then got arrested.
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@avipat_ I don’t know how to break it to you, but your walls look like the subway lettuce bin
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I just found out that Luel AI, the company that completely copied my company Kled's entire website, is misrepresenting their compliance practices, using Delve to outsource it, fabricating their website user numbers, and pulling in massive amounts of fraud data from exclusively fraud oriented regions. Skip to 1:15 if you want to skip context. You truly cannot make this up. This is egregious, disgusting behavior from everyone involved. This is people's data. It cannot be taken lightly. The only way a company like this can truly succeed is by investing the time and resources to commit 100% to the trust and compliance of their users' data. Luel AI is doing the exact opposite. Disgusting behavior for a company trusted with people's data.
Avi Patel@avipat_

General Catalyst just co-led a $31.5 million seed round into a blatant rip-off of my company, Kled. (skip to 40 seconds if you want to skip context) I would typically not speak on things like this, but this level of blatant copycatting is egregious and completely unacceptable, and needs to be made an example of. This is one of hundreds of YC startups who have conducted this disgusting behavior. Unimaginative slop that continues to get rewarded due to nepotism.

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The psyop is that they don't know what these things are... but they've been working together for years
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The White House@WhiteHouse

PRESIDENTIAL UNSEALING FOR UAP ENCOUNTERS. Per President Trump's directive, the @DeptofWar has declassified & released unresolved UAP records. This is an unprecedented level of transparency, no other admin has gone this far. Files now live on WAR.GOV/UFO — additional files will be released by the Dept. of War on a rolling basis.📂

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tfw you see the Robert x @notthreadguy stream
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Robert Leshner shares the story of how a $500M DeFi project crashed to zero “YAM’s was an algorithmic stablecoin, kind of like Terra Luna/UST and they accidentally bricked their governance contract… so governance proposals couldn’t take effect” “This was a new protocol that everyone in DeFi was farming. At the peak it was probably worth like $400M or $500M but everybody was farming this token and they bricked the governance contracts and it went to zero” “It was really a sad war room because everyone tried to save it but like no one could get there in time” “Most things don’t like truly go to zero when there’s like a bug but an algorithmic stablecoin, it literally goes from like confidence to zero. So that one sucked”

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"I think it was maybe @hosseeb who was tweeting that if you revived Satoshi and said, 'Is a stablecoin a cypherpunk product?' I think the answer would have to absolutely be yes. I think we're letting perfect be the enemy of good." @guywuolletjr on @therollupco: "It's very easy to say we're not making progress at the rate we'd want. I think we're actually getting a lot of what we would've wanted five or 10 years ago." "We wake up every morning and I feel like I'm winning. To parrot the Jensen quote, I did not wake up this morning a loser, and I think too many people in crypto have a bit of that mindset today. If there's one message I'd like to convey it's that I feel like we're winning."
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@RebeccaRettig1 @Lighter_xyz @variational_io @StarPlatinum_ @avipat_ @notthreadguy @elonmusk @BarackObama