The Chopping Block

The Blue Tsunami has landed!

Robert says the polls missed the wave. Meanwhile, Tarun can't figure out why Citadel is suing over equity perps. Haseeb says banning abliterated AI models is prior restraint. Tom compares the abliteration fight to early Bitcoin.

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
02:51 a16z Goes Frontier
05:42 The Midterm Mega Tsunami
15:39 Crypto's New Congress
29:10 CFTC Clears Equity Perps
34:14 Anthropic's S-1 Update
35:35 Data Centers Go Blue
43:44 The Abliteration Threat

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how did I do chat?

Rob asks if DeFi ends up on tri-party custody like TradFi. Robert asks why nobody has shipped a different architecture after four years in the dark forest.

@hadickM: "All of the market makers look okay. Liquidity still looks okay."

"Pretty much everyone today is now using tri-party custody."

"I wonder if we get to this thing where it looks a lot like TradFi."

@rleshner: "In 2022, after everything blew up, there was a lot of ideas being circulated in pitch decks about alternate architectures for DeFi protocols."

"Name one mainstream thing that really has shifted and gotten adoption that actually does follow a different architecture."

"We've been living in a dark forest for about 10 years now."

"The forest has gotten darker in the last year."

"So how come we haven't actually in the wild yet seen any teams actually genuinely ship entirely different architectures for DeFi protocols?"