Welcome to Fintech Beat, the intersection of finance, technology, policy and regulation. Each episode features the latest trends, movers and shakers, ideas and policies in financial technology. Host Chris Brummer, a Georgetown law professor and world-renowned fintech expert, partners with the CQ Roll Call newsroom — Washington's leader for nonpartisan legislative and regulatory analysis — to bring insights that make this a must listen for anyone interested in finance.
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The Law of Code podcast focuses on the legal framework being built around blockchains, crypto, NFTs, and DAOs. We’ll look at crypto regulations, rights surrounding NFTs, as well as the legislation impacting blockchain. You’ll hear from the top lawyers, lawmakers, and entrepreneurs in the space – we’ll touch on best practices countries are implementing, new regulations, and share ideas on the best path forward.
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The podcast, "Race and Regulation," focuses on the most fundamental responsibility of any society: ensuring equal justice, and dignity and respect, to all people. Listen as leading scholars uncover how government regulations across a wide range of areas—including voting rights, child welfare, banking, land use, and more—have contributed to racial inequities, as well as how regulatory changes could help build a more just society. The podcast features some of today’s foremost experts working o ...
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We explore the science, the stories, and the strategies of navigating challenge and discomfort. This is a mental wellbeing and performance podcast aimed at improving our ability to step outside our comfort zones and take on challenges, whether they be in pursuit of our goals, or the ones life hands to us from time to time. Join Chris Desmond and guests for some fascinating discussions.
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#144 - What SEC crypto disclosure guidance means for projects, with Dr. Chris Brummer
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25:45In this episode, Jacob Robinson is joined by Dr. Chris Brummer (@ChrisBrummerDr), Professor of Financial Technology at Georgetown Law and Founder & CEO of Bluprynt, an AI and blockchain-powered platform for automating regulatory disclosures. Together, they unpack the SEC’s recent statement: Offerings and Registrations of Securities in the Crypto As…
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#143 - The biggest legal risk facing crypto developers might be Section 1960, which Amanda Tuminelli explains
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25:44In this conversation, Jacob Robinson and Amanda Tuminelli, Executive Director of the DeFi Education Fund, delve into the criminal code provision punishing unlicensed money transmitting businesses, why this is relevant for developers of non-custodial crypto projects, and how a recent memo from the Department of Justice on ending “the regulatory weap…
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#142 — Unpacking the SEC Statement on Stablecoins with Larry Florio
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33:19Jacob Robinson and Larry Florio delve into the SEC's recent statement on stablecoins and how SEC staff applied the Reves and Howey tests to determine whether stablecoins are considered securities. Show highlights: [2:00] What this statement means for lawyers [3:30] When stablecoins aren't securities [7:00] The platonic ideal of a stablecoin [11:00]…
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Banking on Blockchain: Ukraine’s First Instant Payments Rail
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19:19How Stellar’s new transparent network is providing a new payment rail for commercial banks in Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Brummer
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Brazil’s Real Backed Stablecoin—and What its Success Means for PIX, Dollarization and Instant payments
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26:35Cofounders of Brazil’s real-backed stablecoin BLRA talk about drivers behind its usage and what it means for cross border payments and dollarization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Brummer
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Lewis Cohen joins the show to discuss why AI agents in crypto shouldn't be surprising, the legal questions that arise, and how smart regulators should respond Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Brummer
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ICO 2.0? How Legion Wants to Remake Crypto Fundraising
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27:24Matty O’Connor joins the podcast to talk about ICOs and the Legion White Paper. For more on Legion’s partnership with Bluprynt, Chris Brummer’s startup, see https://www.bluprynt.com/post/legion-bluprynt-mica-compliant-ico-eu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Brummer
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Nic Carter Talks Academic Philosophy, Chokepoint 2.0 and Stablecoins in Emerging Markets
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47:58On a new season of the Fintech Beat, Castle Island Partner and On the Brink host Nic Carter breaks down academic philosophy and fintech, government actions towards crypto and stablecoin use cases in emerging markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Brummer
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#141 - Josh Lawler and Jener Sakiri on securities, regulation and gaming in crypto
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49:42Josh Lawler is a partner at Zuber Lawler, where he leads the firm’s Emerging Technologies Group with a particular emphasis on blockchain technology. Josh previously practiced as a corporate securities and M&A attorney at Skadden, Arps. Jener Sakiri is an associate at Zuber Lawler and focuses on transactional and regulatory matters. He often works w…
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#140 - SAFEs, SAFTs and what's market for crypto startups with Nick Pullman
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1:07:22Nick Pullman (@NickPullmanEsq) is Corporate Counsel and founder of Day One Law Corporation, where he provides legal solutions for tech startups and investors. Nick was previously head of legal at an NFT startup and an associate at Cooley and DLA Piper. In this conversation, we cover: [2:53] Nick's introduction to Bitcoin [7:33] What's market: SAFEs…
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#139 - Changing political tides in DC, Consensys' SEC lawsuit with Bill Hughes
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50:03Bill Hughes (@BillHughesDC) is Senior Counsel & Director of Global Regulatory Matters at Consensys Software, which is behind MetaMask, Infura, and various other software supporting the programmable blockchain ecosystem. For more on Bill’s background, I recommend episode 74 of Law of Code. This conversation is focused on the lawsuit Consensys brough…
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#138 - The future of sports and crypto: Karate Combat
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42:32This conversation with two lawyers — Samir Patel and David Kuhn — and an entrepreneur who goes by OnlyLarping covers all aspects of Karate Combat, a novel form of sports league that is betting heavily on crypto. Show highlights: [2:51] What is Karate Combat? [7:26] Implementing token governance [13:11] Crypto and sports [19:34] Why they believe it …
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#137 - Blockchain Association sues the SEC to strike down Dealer Rule
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38:45Recently, the Blockchain Association (BA) and the Crypto Freedom Alliance of Texas (CFAT) filed a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission seeking a court order to strike down the SEC’s Dealer Rule due to the SEC’s various Administrative Procedure Act (APA) violations including preventing industry participants from being able to opera…
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Adam Kovacevich, the Founder and CEO of Chamber of Progress, talks about the government's antitrust case against Apple. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Brummer
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#136 - Justin Wales on the Crypto Legal Handbook
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47:16Justin Wales (@bitcoin_wales) is the Head of Legal for the Americas at Crypto.com. Before going in-house, he was a partner at the international law firm K&L Gates, where he represented crypto companies in all aspects of their business. His new book, The Crypto Legal Handbook, is a must-read guide through the laws of crypto, web3 and an ever-decentr…
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#135 - Everything you should know about Roman Sterlingov's case
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51:09Today’s podcast covers the case of Roman Sterlingov, a 33-year-old Swedish-Russian national, was arrested by Internal Revenue Service criminal investigators at the Los Angeles airport and was accused of creating and operating Bitcoin Fog, a bitcoin “mixing” service that the US Justice Department claims Sterlingov used to enable $336 million in mone…
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#134 - Pre-enforcement lawsuit against the SEC with Amanda Tuminelli and Jake Chervinsky
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29:23The DeFi Education Fund and co-plaintiff Beba, an apparel company based in Texas, recently filed a pre-enforcement suit challenging the SEC’s regulation by enforcement approach to crypto and their policy that free airdrops are securities transactions. Amanda Tuminelli serves as the DeFi Education Fund's chief legal officer where she leads the organ…
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#133 - Liability on smart contract developers: Roman Storm case with Jake Chervinsky and Amanda Tuminelli
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27:34After the DEF submitted an amicus brief in the Roman Storm matter, which involves Tornado Cash, I spoke with the two authors: Amanda Tuminelli serves as the DeFi Education Fund's chief legal officer where she leads the organization's impact litigation and policy efforts. Jake Chervinsky recently joined Variant as Chief Legal Officer, where he leads…
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#132 - What is MetaLeX? Plus, why lawyers must take note
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54:49Co-founded by longtime cryptolawyers Gabriel Shapiro and Alex Golubitsky, the mission of MetaLeX (which means beyond law) is to combine legal structures and autonomous tech to create best-in-class solutions serving DAOs, devs, and internet denizens with a suite of interoperable autonomous law solutions, which they refer to as MetaLeX OS. The goal i…
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Ramon Gomez and Ravi Govindaraju, two of JPMorgan's top voices on open banking, break down the CFPB's new regulatory proposals, the difference between screen scraping and APIs, and what both mean for privacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Brummer
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#131 - Is UNI a security after Uniswap turns on the fee switch? EU and MiCA insights from Stephane Daniel
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50:22Stéphane Daniel (@stephdan_law) is a Partner at d&a partners, an independent law firm dedicated to tech and blockchain entrepreneurs in France and the EU. Stéphane advises high-tech firms with their structuring, fundraising, and M&A transactions. He was notably involved in the first legal structuring (under French law) of DAOs and regularly advises…
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#130 - Chris Giancarlo, former CFTC Chair on the SEC's approach to crypto
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1:20:19Chris Giancarlo (@giancarloMKTS) is senior counsel and Co-Chair of the Willkie Digital Works practice in the firm’s New York office. Chris served as the thirteenth Chairman of the U.S. CFTC, where he oversaw regulation of the futures, options and swaps derivatives markets. During his tenure at the CFTC (2014-2019), Chris oversaw the first bitcoin f…
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Polygon's Rebecca Rettig joins the show to talk about her new coauthored article with Michael Mosier and Katja Gilman, Genuine DeFi as Critical infrastructure. Read at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4607332 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Brummer
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#129 - Why is the same risk, same rules philosophy wrong? Eric Hess explains
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39:03Eric Hess (@hess_legal) is Founder & Managing Counsel at Hess Legal Counsel, a cybersecurity SaaS platform and consulting company, and hosts The Encrypted Economy podcast. In this episode, we’ll be exploring his recent paper Bridging Policy and Practice: A Pragmatic Approach to Decentralized Finance, Risk, and Regulation. For Part 1, a history of s…
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#128 - Primavera De Filippi of CNRS and Harvard on the future of copyright law, NFTs and DAOs
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47:54Primavera De Filippi is a Director of Research at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. Her research focuses on the legal challe…
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Beta Bank CEO Seke Ballard joins to show to talk about technology and inclusion, branch banking from a cellphone, and his journey for a De Novo Bank license. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Brummer
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#127 - Cravath's Jeff Dinwoodie on the SEC and the future of crypto regulation
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1:08:35Jeffrey T. Dinwoodie is a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and a member of the firm’s Financial Institutions Group. He has served in senior roles at the SEC and the U.S. Treasury Department, including as Chief Counsel to SEC Chairman Jay Clayton and, earlier, as Chairman Clayton’s Trading and Markets Counsel. Disclaimer: Jacob Robinson and his g…
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#126 - Genuine DeFi as Critical Infrastructure: Paper by Rebecca Rettig, Michael Mosier and Katja Gilman
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46:45Rebecca Rettig, Michael Mosier and Katja Gilman published their paper, Genuine DeFi as Critical Infrastructure: A Conceptual Framework for Combating Illicit Finance Activity in Decentralized Finance and a summary two-pager. This paper proposes a framework (see Section III) to effectively detect, deter and prevent illicit financial activity in DeFi,…
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#125 - Repost: Coinbase's Motion to Dismiss the SEC's Lawsuit
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52:06On August 4, 2023, Coinbase filed a brief in support of its motion to dismiss the SEC's lawsuit. This podcast provides an audio version of the brief, along with key takeaways and points made within it. Show highlights: [1:00] Preliminary Statement [6:30] Background on the SEC's charges [11:30] Coinbase's argument for dismissal [13:00] Because the c…
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#124 - Former CFTC Director Josh Sterling on choosing regulators (SEC vs CFTC) and the future of Web3
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39:13Joshua B. Sterling is a Partner at Jones Day where he represents financial services, energy, fintech, agriculture and other companies in matters before the CFTC, the SEC, and other financial regulators. A former senior regulator, Josh was previously the Director of the CFTC’s Market Participants Division. In that role, he oversaw the 3,300 financia…
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#123 - The SEC vs. Coinbase Hearing: What you should know with Bloomberg's Elliott Stein
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41:24Elliott Z. Stein (@NYCStein) is a Senior Litigation Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. He previously worked in private practice on structured finance/capital markets litigation, white-collar crime and related capital markets matters. Show highlights: [1:30] Attending Coinbase hearing on Jan 17 [6:00] Why Elliott expects Coinbase to win [12:00] Judg…
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#122 - History of American Securities Regulation with Eric Hess
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1:07:59Eric Hess (@hess_legal) is Founder & Managing Counsel at Hess Legal Counsel, a cybersecurity SaaS platform and consulting company, and hosts The Encrypted Economy podcast. Eric has over twenty years of experience acting as senior in-house counsel, general counsel or senior management for exchanges, broker dealers, and financial services technology …
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#121 - MEV and OFAC Risk for Infrastructure Providers
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50:34Evan Zinaman (@zin_esq) is the Founder & Principal at Trailbreak, a boutique transactional firm providing tech-fluent corporate, regulatory, product and IP counsel and strategic advice to startups, builders and investors throughout the crypto space. Evan also serves as special crypto counsel to clients of Reed Smith, advising as part of an industry…
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#120 - Paradigm's Policy Lab with Rodrigo Seira and Brandon Malone
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56:14Rodrigo Seira (@RSSH273) is Special Counsel at Paradigm. Prior to joining Paradigm, he was outside counsel to crypto investors and entrepreneurs at Cooley LLP. Brendan Malone (@brendanpmalone) is a Policy Manager at Paradigm. Prior to joining Paradigm, Brendan worked at the Federal Reserve where he focused on policy issues for financial market infr…
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#119 - Reviewing the EU's MiCA with William O’Rorke
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57:09William O’Rorke (@williamororke) is the Founding Partner of ORWL, a leading law firm assisting clients with businesses in the crypto space, VASPs and general Web3 services. He leads the regulatory practice at ORWL and is the head of the legal committee at ADAN, a French crypto association. In this conversation, we discuss the most significant impac…
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#118 - Crypto Taxes, NFT Settlements and Decentralization with Zach Rosenberg
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59:09Zach Rosenberg (@MeatEsq) is an attorney and principal at Rosehill Legal, a boutique transactional firm assisting early-stage founders, largely in the crypto space, with structuring, funding, building, and deploying products and networks. He previously worked as an M&A Tax Director at PWC where he spent eight years advising large private equity fir…
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#117 - Ryne Miller on the CFTC's DeFi Settlements and the history of Gary Gensler
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58:24Ryne Miller is the founder and managing partner of Miller Strategic Partners LLP, a law firm specializing in: 1. Regulatory advice and investigations counsel for the traditional trading and markets industry; 2. Regulatory and strategic advice for digital asset and blockchain companies; and 3. Crisis and incident response management. Ryne was previo…
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#116 - Discussing Coinbase's L2 (Base) and FriendTech with Jolie Yang
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59:00Jolie Yang (@JolieYang) is a former legal partner to Coinbase's product, engineering, and design teams on its Web3 initiatives, such as self-custodial wallet, decentralized identity, digital assets, as product counsel. While at Coinbase, Jolie was part of the team that launched Base. Prior to Coinbase, Jolie was an attorney at Davis Polk and Skadde…
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Special episode: Colonel Sara Dudley on Digital Assets and National Security
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14:42U.S. Army Special Operations Command Comptroller offers her perspective on digital assets and national security from a forum hosted by Georgetown Law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Brummer
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Portabl CEO Nate Soffio explains how reliant we are on others to construct our digital identities and the possibility of restoring consumer control of our data and our identities in a digital world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Brummer
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Everything you need to know about the OTC Markets
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30:11Dan Zinn, general counsel of the OTC Markets Groups, gives the 101 course on Over the Counter market structure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Brummer
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#115 - Challenging Patents Impacting DeFi with Amanda Tuminelli of the DeFi Education Fund
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56:23Amanda Tuminelli (@amandatums) is chief legal officer for the Defi Education Fund, where she leads the organization’s impact litigation and policy efforts. She was previously an attorney at Kobre & Kim and Dechert LLP, and served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Eastern District of New York. Show highlights: [1:00] DeFi Education Fund's petition to …
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#114 - CFTC Regulation of Crypto with Michael Frisch
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41:56Michael Frisch is a partner at Croke Fairchild Morgan & Beres where he leads the firm’s Government Litigation and Investigations Practice. Mike previously worked at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), where he brought one of the CFTC’s first enforcement actions involving cryptocurrency — CFTC v. Bitfinex — and was part of the team resp…
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#113 - Decentralized Dispute Resolution with Mark Cianci of Ropes & Gray
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44:33Mark Cianci is Counsel at Ropes & Gray, where he represents hedge funds, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, and clients in other industries in complex commercial litigation, cryptocurrency litigation, qui tam actions, bankruptcy litigation, and government investigation and enforcement matters. Mark also counsels clients in the bloc…
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Can Africa’s Payments Unicorn Conquer the World?
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25:55Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola joins the show to demystify building digital infrastructure in Africa, and lessons learned in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Brummer
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Grayscale Investments CEO Michael Sonnenshein and Chief Legal Officer Craig Salm discuss their proposed Bitcoin ETF and lawsuit with the SEC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Brummer
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#112 - India's Crypto Law Regime with Ashish Chandra of CoinSwitch
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47:10Ashish Chandra is the General Counsel of CoinSwitch, India's largest crypto platform pivoting into a multi-asset wealth-tech superapp. With over 22 years of experience in the tech industry, Ashish also led the legal and regulatory affairs of WhatsApp for India. He helped build the e-commerce and fintech/payments business of Facebook, Instagram & Wh…
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#111 - Ross Campbell on ERC 1155 and Legal Engineering at Kali DAO + Nani.
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1:04:07Ross Campbell (@z0r0zzz) is a legal engineer and co-founder of KaliDAO, in addition to being a corporate attorney. Ross is also working on NANI, a protocol mixing AI and crypto and is a founder of LexDAO. Previous episodes with Ross: 1. #5 - Ross Campbell: Legal engineering, Bar Association DAOs, use cases for oracles, and much, much more 2. #30 - …
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SaaStr CEO Jason M. Lemkin demystifies everything you need to know about SaaS, and the joys of recurring revenue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Brummer
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#109 - Stephen Palley on the Evolution of Crypto Law, Insurance, Dumpsters and AI.
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52:06Stephen Palley (@stephendpalley) is a litigation partner and co-chair of Brown Rudnick’s Digital Commerce group. Stephen is a seasoned litigator with over 20 years of extensive courtroom experience litigating and trying complex commercial matters. Stephen has written extensively and been quoted widely on legal issues arising from the use of Blockch…
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