What should we talk about on the next Chopping Block?

thx @Hosseeb now my life is fixed

👀 youtu.be/PKsLV075o6g - watch our interview with Haseeb ＞|＜, Partner Dragonfly ＞|＜

🔹How Dragonfly Capital navigated through the bear markets.
🔹VC, which skipped on all currently failed deals: FTX, BlockFi, Luna, Genesis
🔹Naive, idealistic thinking of crypto community…

This happened yesterday.

I'm sure many are building better tools to prevent this.

I'll do my part by coming up with a quick and simple system for non tech users.

The address '🍔burger check'.

Not perfect, but it increases the chances of avoiding similar fatal mistakes.

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Love this idea.

This whole month is going to rewrite the playbook on points & airdrops. Industry is learning in real-time.

by Haseeb ＞|＜

Made a dashboard for fantasy.top stats ✨

I'll keep adding charts, all feedback welcome

dash: flipsidecrypto.xyz/hildobby/fanta…

Fascinating. Satellite maps of China are all slightly off because Chinese law requires GPS to add small random perturbations onto any coordinates.

TIL.

medium.com/@anastasia.biz…

1/10 Re-introducing Entropy as the Autonomous Agents Network.

Agents are intelligent software entities that independently execute tasks efficiently and securely based on user-defined rules and constraints.

Interactions within the blockchain ecosystem are set to change 🧵

This week on the @_ChoppingBlock, we dive deep into the Eigenlayer airdrop drama. Was the community wronged, or was this another crypto tantrum?

+ Martin Shkreli (e/acc)'s unexpected redemption arc!

Join me, @TarunChitra, @Tomhschmidt, and @Rleshner--so much drama to cover this week!

Data contamination is a huge problem for LLM evals right now. At Scale, we created a new test set for GSM8k *from scratch* to measure overfitting and found evidence that some models (most notably Mistral and Phi) do substantially worse on this new test set compared to GSM8k.

the FBI calls crypto money so they can arrest you for money laundering

the IRS calls it property so they can tax you on capital gains

the SEC calls it a security so they can sue every exchange

the CFTC calls it a commodity so you can’t use it as a currency

Good read (15 min) on the experience + economics of running a Solana validator from someone getting into the game.

apfikunmi.medium.com/running-a-sola…

Just got footage of the memecoin panel at Token2049. This one was nuts—it was standing room only.

Stacked panel featuring Ansem 🐂🀄️ (pre-fight so people still liked him), Alex Krüger, mert | helius | hSOL, moderated by the great Jordi Alexander

... plus me for some reason 🙃

Hahaha 4 months

Couldn't have written it better

Looking like our boy is likely to land a light sentence

Haseeb ＞|＜ I would say that it's common, but not standard. Ethereum, Polkadot, Cosmos and Tezos have slashing. Solana, NEAR, Avalanche, etc. don't.