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Podcast: Unchained
Episode: The Chopping Block: The Inside Story of How Blur Toppled NFT Giant OpenSea
Description: Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. This week, it’s time for a case study: Special guest Pacman, founder of Blur, explains how his upstart NFT marketplace fought OpenSea and won.Show highlights:
what it’s like to launch a token
why Blur was created and what its strategy was for competing with OpenSea
why royalties remain a lightning rod in the NFT community
how Blur designed its liquidity mining program and the lesson learned from failed...