Institutional Crypto Strategy — Operational & Regulatory Roadmap with Alpha FMC

Traditional asset managers control the world’s largest pools of capital. How—and when—will they deploy it into digital assets? Phill Moran and Dalton Cole interview Christian Pellegrino, Director & Head of Digital Assets at Alpha FMC, to map the exact operational, regulatory, and economic triggers that move institutions from research to execution.

Marc Krisjanous, Associate Director of Audit at SixBlocks Audit, joins to talk about crypto security for institutions. Marc has a deep background in the world of traditional security audits and is one of the core developers of the CCSS audit, the only audit specifically built for the management of private keys in the context of cryptocurrency custody.

We discuss how the CCSS compares to traditional frameworks, like PCI DSS.

We spoke with Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines and Thibault de Lacheze-Murel at Dfns, a cryptocurrency custody technology provider, to hear their perspective on the recent Bybit hack and security related to crypto custody.

Building regulated custody in crypto is a challenging subject. International jurisdictions have their own unique approaches to qualifying a custody solution as "regulated", or "qualified".

Jose joins us to talk through how they are tackling this at Tungsten Custody Solutions.

After the meltdown of FTX and other entities, the crypto industry threw their hands up in the air and said "well I guess the bad guys have been washed out". But that just isn't the case. There are still bad actors lurking.

As the solution to this - Kevin Hoang is building EQ Exchange, a crypto exchange where all of the financials are made available to users in real time.

Aaron Kaplan is co-founder and CEO of Prometheum, a US regulated crypto Special Purpose Broker Dealer. Over a year ago, he spoke in front of Congress and this created a big uproar in the Crypto industry.

Today Aaron joins us to talk about the state of crypto regulations, what is unlocked because of regulations, their platform, and reflecting on the past year and a half since his Congressional testimony.

Pulkit at Orbit Markets shares his experience in the crypto altcoin options markets. Altcoins are in many ways the edge of financial markets, and options on those instruments even more so.

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Effective benchmarks are required to bring the institutional crowd to crypto, but the asset class is still in its infancy when it comes to benchmarking. Andy from Coindesk Indices takes us through the work they have been doing to do just this.

James Runnels from Digital Prime technologies joins us to cover the evolution and integration of traditional prime brokerage services within the digital assets space, discussing the critical role of infrastructure and regulatory clarity. We explore how traditional financial practices are being adapted to meet the demands of the crypto market, focusing on services like custody, execution, and lending. The discussion also covers the challenges and advancements in creating a robust digital prime brokerage framework.

In this episode of "Convince Me," we discuss the development and growth of Velodrome and Aerodrome (who has come to dominate the Base blockchain), two decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols operating on Ethereum Layer 2s like Base and Optimism. The conversation covers the protocols' tokenomics, voting mechanisms, building on layer 2's like Base, and how they drive liquidity in decentralized exchanges.