Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh is gearing up for his Senate hearing next week, where he’s likely to face questions over his investments in crypto firms as he prepares to lead what could be a more crypto-forward central bank.

We’ll break down the biggest headlines shaping the week, including Drift Protocol teaming up with Tether as part of its recovery from a $280 million hack. OnRe Finance co-founder Ayyan Rahman joins us with his take.

Plus, Paxos Labs’ Bhau Kotecha discusses the firm’s recent $12 million fundraise led by Blockchain Capital, and Plume Network GC Salman Banaei weighs in on why the SEC’s latest guidance on DeFi user interfaces may not solve the bigger problem.

Were live at Solana Policy Institute's Washington x Wall Street Summit with Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation. In this conversation, we discuss the team's vision where Solana serves as the foundational infrastructure for global financial markets, why the world’s largest IPOs will eventually move onchain by 2027,  the "Netflix-style" distribution of assets that will disrupt legacy banking, and how the AI economy will require crypto-native payments.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Welcome Lily Liu To Crypto In America

0:15 - What ‘Crypto In America’ means To Lily

2:11 – Blockchain's true purpose of financial infrastructure 

4:52 – Institutions are pivoting from applications

8:18 – Scaling asset distribution to 5 billion people

11:09 – Plans for a major IPO on Solana by 2027

13:54 – Why traditional capital markets are limited

17:55 – The problem with traditional wire payments

23:00 – Why Solana chooses unified liquidity over app chains

26:00 - Outlook on US regulation 

28:00 - Building a generalist chain

30:20 – Why the AI machine economy needs crypto

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As Congress prepares to return to Capitol Hill next week and get the ball moving again on the Clarity Act, we speak with White House Crypto Council Executive Director Patrick Witt about the latest in negotiations and whether the bill could be ready for a markup later this month. We also chat with the new president of tokenization firm Securitize on how policy from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Congress is shaping the company’s strategy as it gears up to go public. Plus, Amanda Tuminelli breaks down the latest in the Roman Storm case after the developer returned to court for an acquittal hearing.

Evan Cheng is the Co-Founder & CEO of Mysten Labs, the team behind the Sui blockchain. In this conversation, we discuss building Mysten and Sui, how the shifting U.S. regulatory landscape has shaped that journey, AI and agentic payments, the latest from Washington on stablecoin yield in the Clarity Act, where institutions are leaning in today, and the most underrated use cases in crypto.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Welcome Evan Cheng To Crypto In America 

0:30 - What Does ‘Crypto In America’ Mean To Evan

1:30 - From Diem to Sui

3:30 - Why Companies Build Chains

7:50 - Permission vs. Permission-less

8:30 - Institutions and L1 Design

13:20 - Managing Patience & Expectations When Building 

16:20 - Changes Since Regulatory Clarity 

20:30 - More Talent Flows From America?

22:00 - AI & Agentic Payments Coming To Crypto

25:00 - L1 Upgrades

27:30 - Stablecoin Yield Regulation 

29:30 - Latest Update On Yield In Clarity Act

32:30 - Creating New Financial Products

34:30 - What Are Institutions Interested In Building? 

39:30 - Underrated Blockchain Use Cases 

43:00 - Sustainability In Ecosystem 

44:30 - Evan Is Paying Attention To AI Changing Everything

49:30 - Thanks Evan For Joining! Like & Subscribe

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Eleanor recently spoke to Chairman French Hill & Rep. William Timmons in Nashville at the Digital Assets and Emerging Tech Policy Summit. In this conversation, we discuss why blockchain should be a core learning curriculum alongside AI and cybersecurity, the ongoing Senate debate over stablecoin yield, why Senate due diligence is normal, how stablecoins will be transitional in the U.S., and bringing crypto payment firms under OCC, FDIC, and Fed oversight. With the 2026 midterms approaching and crypto PAC money ramping up, Rep. Timmons adds that anti-crypto politics are increasingly ill-advised, PAC spending is focused on securing clear rules, and the U.S. must pass market-structure legislation.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Welcome Chairman Hill

2:19 - Why Crypto Should Be Taught

5:29 - Stablecoin Yield Fight In DC

10:16 - No Sellout to Banks

13:28 - Payments Use Case for Stablecoins

15:11 - Clarity Timeline Update

18:59 - Rep Timmons Joins

25:00 - PAC Money and Pro Crypto Politics

28:28 - Regulatory Charters and Fed Access

31:17 - What Comes After Clarity

35:06 - If House Flips Blue In The Fall

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Another major hack hit crypto this week, with early analysis pointing to possible involvement from North Korea. Drift Protocol’s $285 million exploit is raising fresh questions about how “decentralized” some DeFi platforms really are and why parts of the Senate’s pending market structure bill aim to address exactly that. We break it all down, plus the latest centralized versus decentralized tensions playing out around Wall Street’s favorite blockchain, Canton Network, with Jito Labs’ Rebecca Rettig. And in TradFi’s continued push into crypto, Franklin Templeton makes another big move, launching Franklin Crypto, a new institutional grade digital asset platform. We speak with Chris Perkins, CEO of 250 Digital, who is helping lead the charge.

Bryan Pellegrino is the Co-Founder & CEO of LayerZero Labs. In this conversation, we discuss how a 2011 U.S. online poker ban led him to crypto as an “escape hatch,” early sports gambling, learning how insecure and centralized cross-chain bridges were, interoperability, the 700% increase in traffic on LayerZero, building an L1, and working with institutions to connect tradfi to blockchains.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Welcome Bryan Pellegrino To Crypto In America!

0:30 - What Does ‘Crypto In America’ Mean To Bryan?

2:00 - Poker Ban Got Him Into Crypto

6:00 - First Company Bryan Launched - Starting Sports Gambling

10:00 - Building Cross-Chain Bridges On Ethereum 

12:15 - Interoperability 

17:00 - Explaining Bridges Security Value Proposition To Legislators In DC 

21:00 - LayerZero Explained 

23:30 - Transfer Volume Raised By 700% 

26:15 - Working With Wyoming Stable Token Commission

27:30 - Connecting TradFi To Public Blockchains 

30:45 - The Amount Of Interest From Institutions

30:30 - Launching L1 Layer “Zero” - Why Is LayerZero The Choice For Interoperability? 

38:00 - Does LayerZero Need Regulatory Clarity? 

41:00 - Where 2M TPS Demand Comes From

47:30 - L1 Winners & Losers

50:45 - Bryan Is Focused On Building

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Crypto and traditional finance are moving closer than ever. From Franklin Templeton tokenizing ETFs to Fannie Mae exploring crypto-backed mortgages, this week’s developments point to accelerating adoption and a shrinking divide between TradFi and DeFi.

We break it all down, including a new push to bring tokenized deposits to banks with Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski, a deeper dive into the SEC’s latest guidance on crypto transactions with Crypto Task Force Chief Counsel Taylor Lindman, and a growing effort to mobilize crypto voters ahead of the midterms with Stand With Crypto's Executive Director Mason Lynaugh.

We’re celebrating our 1-year anniversary with SEC Chairman Paul Atkins! 

We cover his crypto origin story, how sentiment in DC has shifted, the push toward tokenization and on-chain markets, the SEC’s evolving token taxonomy, partisan politics in finance, what could define 2026, and his relationship with former Chairman Gary Gensler.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Intro

0:30 - What Does ‘Crypto In America’ Mean to  Chairman Atkins

2:30 - Getting Involved With Crypto Back in 2016

4:45 - Biggest Surprise Since Coming Back to the SEC? 

6:30 - Have Opinions On Crypto Changed For The Better?

9:00 - Tokenization

12:15 - Token Taxonomy 

18:00 - Relationship With Gary Gensler 

21:00 - Partisan Politics In Financial Services 

25:30 - What Will Be The SECs Most Significant Move In 2026? 

28:00 - What Chairman Atkins Is Paying Attention To Outside Of The SEC

30:00 - Thanks Chairman Atkins For Joining! Like & Subscribe

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We are live at DC Blockchain Summit 2026 with Chris Pavlovski, the founder and CEO of Rumble. Crypto In America will be streaming on Rumble starting today! In this conversation, we discuss Tether’s $775M investment in Rumble, launching Rumble Wallet for creator tipping (Bitcoin, USDT, and Tether Gold), rolling out Rumble Shorts, Rumble Cloud expansion, and why crypto and payments are core to Rumble’s long-term ecosystem. We also get into free-speech, global censorship battles, Rumble’s court win in France, and media shifts towards podcasts and live streaming.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Intro

0:30 - What Does ‘Crypto In America’ Mean To Chris

2:00 - Tether’s Investment In Rumble (Wallet, Video Shorts and AI Plan)

6:25 - Times Square Wallet Campaign

7:57 - Creator Payments and Fees

11:09 - Why Crypto Fits Rumble’s Ecosystem

14:16-  Free Speech Versus Big Tech

17:21 - Fighting Global Censorship

20:18 - US Regulation

22:42 - Rumble’s Audience Evolution

26:58 - The Future Of Media 

29:00 - Thanks Chris For Joining! 

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