The Chopping Block: When Wall Street Meets DeFi — How Equity Perps and RWAs Redefine Leverage On-Chain - Ep. 937

In this episode of The Chopping Block, Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra are joined by Kaledora Linn to discuss current events in the crypto space. The group discusses the controversy around Ostium’s on-chain perps on RWAs and the high funding rates on Trade.xyz, debating whether perps are well-suited to trade equities and other RWA-type instruments. They also discuss CZ's pardon and the potential negative impact on the crypto industry. Finally, they analyze Coinbase's acquisition of Echo, an ICO platform, and the shift from airdrops to ICOs, drawing parallels to the luxury goods market and the importance of aligning incentives and creating artificial scarcity in token launches.