The SEC’s 2025 Crypto Plans with Commissioner Hester Peirce

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce joined me to discuss the SEC and Crypto regulations in 2025. Topics: Hester’s thoughts on new incoming SEC Chair Paul Atkins Will the SEC potentially drop non-fraud crypto cases in 2025? The SEC’s reputational damage and how it can be fixed How the agency planning to work with Congress on crypto legislation Solutions to help the crypto industry better register with the SEC Will additional Altcoin ETFs be approved this year? XRP, Solana, etc Links: https://x.com/HesterPeirce Watch the interview https://youtu.be/1gp53hGWIrs Listen to the interview Timestamps 02:15 New SEC Chair Paul…

Fixing Ethereum’s Layer 2 Fragmentation with Former Ripple Employee Austin King

Austin King is the Co-Founder and CEO of Omni Network, the abstraction layer for the Ethereum ecosystem. With a background in computer science from Harvard, Austin began his entrepreneurial journey by creating a payment network that scaled to over 10 billion transactions before being acquired by Ripple. Today, Austin, alongside Co-Founder Tyler Tarsi, is leading Omni's mission to empower application developers to access users and liquidity across the entire Ethereum ecosystem without smart contract upgrades. Get to know Austin: Metaverse theme – Solar Punk, Sci Fi Favorite food – Thai Favorite musician/artist – Boris…

Earn Stablecoin Yield with RLUSD, USDC, & More with Uphold! – Simon McLoughlin

Simon Mcloughlin is the CEO of Uphold. He joined me to discuss the new stablecoin rewards program and RLUSD integration. Topics: Uphold's New Rewards Program RLUSD Stablecoin integration and yield USBC Stablecoin Stablecoin Legislation 2025 Crypto Market Outlook Links: Sign up with Uphold - https://uphold.sjv.io/gbED4X https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-mcloughlin-980361a/ Watch the interview https://youtu.be/FN7EivTpOuU Listen to the interview Timestamps 00:52 New rewards program 05:22 RLUSD timeline 05:40 Where is the yield coming from? 06:50 Adding new stablecoins in the future 08:16 Stablecoin legislation 13:31 Rewards Program Markets 15:38 Rewards process 16:18 2025 Roadmap Subscribe To The Free Thinking…

Flare FAssets Will Make XRP, Dogecoin, & Bitcoin Surge with Hugo Philion

Hugo Philion is the Co-founder Flare Networks and CEO of FlareLabs, joined me to discuss the upcoming launch of FAssets. Topics: Upcoming launch of FAssets on SongBird When FAssets will launch on Flare - FXRP, FDOGE, FBTC Collateral Risks Flare stablecoin pilot program in China and Hong Kong FLR Exchange listings US Crypto Regulation Links: https://x.com/HugoPhilion https://flare.network/ Watch the interview https://youtu.be/7zAZ9CFnWW0 Listen to the interview Timestamps 01:57 FAssets on SongBird launch 03:55 Timeline for FAssets on Flare 07:04 Benefits of FAssets 10:43 Grant for Staking 10:43 Grant for Staking 13:01 Adding support for other…

New SEC Chair Paul Atkins to Replace Gary Gensler with Ron Hammond

Ron Hammond of the Blockchain Association joined me to discuss Donald Trump's appointment of Paul Atkins as the next SEC Chair. Ron provides background on Paul Atkins, highlighting his years of working with him. We also discuss the likelihood of the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Bill passing in 2025, as well as insights from recent crypto hearings. Links: https://x.com/RonwHammond https://theblockchainassociation.org/ Watch the interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4GPkQYsp0c Listen to the interview Timestamps 01:41 Paul Atkins SEC Chair 03:45 End of regulation by enforcement 04:17 Atkins accepted nomination? 05:45 When does Atkins get into office? 07:15 SEC to Drop…

XRP & Altcoin Spot ETFs Will Be Approved with Matt Hougan

Matt Hougan, CIO at Bitwise, joined me to discuss their XRP ETF filing, Bitcoin ETF inflows, and much more. Topics: NYSE Arca files 19b-4 to uplist Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund (BITW) as an ETF XRP Spot ETF Bitcoin Strategic Reserve bill and potential impact on ETFs Ethereum ETF flows Impact of elections - pro crypto congress and president Bitwise acquisition of Attestant Links: https://x.com/Matt_Hougan https://bitwiseinvestments.com/ Watch the interview https://youtu.be/dJ1-8vBNHvY Listen to the interview Timestamps 01:40 Crypto market vibes 02:23 Bitcoin Strategic Reserve 05:05 Bitcoin ETF holdings and Satoshi's wallet 07:30 Vanguard's big mistake…