How Crypto Funds Make Money with Chris Perkins

Chris Perkins is the President and Managing Partner of CoinFund which is a cryptoasset-focused investment firm founded in 2015 and based in Brooklyn, New York. Chris background includes working in TradFi at Lehman Brothers. Topics: TradFi and Crypto - adoption and future outlook How CoinFund invests in different crypto companies and projects What to look for when investing in crypto projects Congressman Warren Davidson visiting CoinFund's office US Crypto Regulations Bitcoin ETFs performance and Ethereum ETF expectations Stablecoins and CBDCs Links: https://coinfund.io/ https://x.com/perkinscr97 Watch the interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Wr4SvpCr0 Listen to the interview Timestamps 02:00 Chris'…

Circle’s USDC Stablecoin is the World’s Digital Dollar with Jeremy Allaire

Jeremy Allaire is the Co-founder and CEO of Circle which helps businesses and developers harness the power of the USDC stablecoin for payments and commerce. Topics: USDC.com launch and $15 Trillion in USDC volume since 2018 Stablecoin adoption outlook EU Stablecoin regulations Competitors Tether USDT, PayPal PYUSD, Ripple RLUSD and stablecoin market outlook Circle's partnership with BlackRock Circle's new banking partner distribution to avoid another Silicon Valley bank situation Plans to expand USDC to other blockchains Circle IPO US Crypto Regulations Links: https://www.circle.com/en/ https://www.usdc.com/ https://x.com/jerallaire Watch the interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDABcMN5ygw Listen to the interview Timestamps…

Ethereum’s Big Win Against The SEC with Bill Hughes

Bill Hughes is Senior Counsel and Director of Global Regulatory Matters at Consensys. Topics: SEC drops investigation into Ethereum Consensys lawsuit against the SEC SEC still targeting Staking and MetaMask Coinbase case Wallet decision impact on MetaMask SEC versus crypto exchanges and Kraken oral arguments for motion to dismiss Gary Gensler refusing to acknowledge Ethereum is a commodity Crypto Legislation outlook Crypto's impact on Politics Consensys comments on the IRS 1099-DA Links: https://x.com/BillHughesDC https://consensys.io/ Watch the interview https://youtu.be/4HZLMeE9_b0 Listen to the interview Timestamps 02:08 SEC drops case against Ethereum 09:19 Gary Gensler won't say…

Billions Will Flow Into The Ethereum ETFs with Matt Hougan

Matt Hougan is the Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management. Previously CEO at Inside ETFs, Managing Director of Global Finance at Informa. Before that, CEO of ETF.com. Co-authored the CFA Institute's monograph on ETFs. Topics: SEC partial approval of Ethereum ETFs SEC drops investigation of Ethereum Expected inflows into the Ethereum ETFs Timeline for Solana and XRP ETFs Market volatility impact on Bitcoin ETFs and expected inflows in H2 2024 Crypto's impact on Politics and the presidential debate Links: https://bitwiseinvestments.com/ https://x.com/Matt_Hougan Watch the interview https://youtu.be/Ecvlv77Omnw Listen to the interview Timestamps 01:18 SEC Ethereum…

The SEC’s Attack Against Ethereum is Not Over with Fred Rispoli

Attorney Fred Rispoli is the founder of Hodl Law. Topics: SEC vs Ethereum and Consensys SEC vs Ripple XRP Will the SEC go after Ripple for its upcoming Stablecoin RLUSD SEC going after crypto exchanges Biden vs Trump Crypto Election Links: https://hodllaw.org/ https://x.com/freddyriz Watch the interview https://youtu.be/ZL2purQJu_4 Listen to the interview Timestamps 01:33 SEC vs Ethereum and Consesnsys 05:45 SEC Ethereum Security Debacle 08:45 Hodl Laws Ethereum Case 11:35 Donald Trump & Biden Crypto 14:55 Crypto and Politics 16:24 Crypto at presidential debates 17:30 Democrats turn on Gary Gensler & Elizabeth Warren 20:59 SEC…

A New Way To ReStake Crypto With Warren Anderson

Warren Anderson is the CEO of Exocore, an omnichain restaking protocol powering an open market for decentralized trust. Prior to Exocore, Warren co-founded Hedgy, one of the first DeFi platforms which pioneered the use of multisig and hashed timelock contracts for atomic transactions of OTC trades on the Bitcoin blockchain. Warren joined Ripple in 2016 to lead product development across a variety of open crypto protocols, platforms, and products, including RippleX, the XRP Ledger, Interledger, and Paystring. While at Ripple, he co-created On-Demand Liquidity, an enterprise payment API that uses crypto to settle cross-border payments in…