Crypto In America

Eleanor and Gerald are live on the ground at the XRP Las Vegas conference, where they’re hosting a fireside chat with Massachusetts Senate candidate John Deaton, a pro-crypto lawyer taking on incumbent Ed Markey in the midterms.

Deaton joins the show to share his take on the state of the industry, the chances of the Clarity Act passing, and his second run on the campaign trail.

OpenAssets founder and CEO Gabor Gurbacs also joins with his outlook on institutional capital in a post-ETF world and why he believes tokenization could be the next standard.

Andrew McCormick is the Head of eToro US. In this conversation, we discuss why crypto regulation is so messy in the US and why we need a national standard. We get into the BitLicense in New York, federal preemption, managing all 50 states, eToro’s IPO, tokenization, vetting crypto assets on the platform, if prediction markets are coming soon, and why The Clarity Act must be passed soon.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Welcome Andrew McCormick To Crypto In America

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

1:00 -  Andrew’s Dad Led Him To Crypto 

4:20 - Why Regulatory In Crypto Is Too Messy vs. Tradfi 

6:40 - Difficulty Getting A New York BitLicense

8:30 - Federal Preemption Of Crypto And Why We Need A National Standard 

11:30 - Managing Regulation In All 50 States

13:20 - Joining eToro During The 2024 Election - Is Crypto Still Politicized? 

16:30 - Expansion & Vetting Crypto Assets

20:15 - eToro’s Post-Election Changes (IPO, Innovation, Staking, Launch In NY)

21:30 - Operating A Public Company vs. Private Company 

23:00 - Reflecting on the IPO 

24:30 - The Importance of Financial Literacy 

26:30 - Is The US Market More Conservative Than Rest Of The World? 

28:00 - Where Tokenization Is Going

29:30 - eToro’s Edge In The Market

31:00 - Prediction Markets Coming Soon?

32:30 - Why We Need Clarity 

33:30 - Andrew’s Advice: Touch Grass

#crypto #bitcoin #blockchain #investing #technology #america

With one week left in April and still no date on the calendar for a Clarity Act markup, the pressure is building. More than 120 crypto firms are urging the Senate Banking Committee to move fast. Ji Kim, CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation, joins us to break down what is at stake and what further delays could mean for the future of crypto legislation.

Plus, Rep. Sam Liccardo (D-CA) on his bipartisan push to open up America’s payments rails to fintech and crypto and lower costs for everyday Americans.

And a new documentary claiming to unmask Satoshi Nakamoto is drawing surprising praise from a community that is usually highly skeptical of the subject. We speak with the director behind it.

Stephen Gregory is the new CEO of Binance US. In This exclusive interview, we discuss his decision to join Binance US, navigating the regulatory environment, growth plans including expanded fiat rails, & potential credit cards, expansion into prediction markets, the potential impact of the Clarity Act, competing with US Companies like Coinbase, tokenization, stablecoins, and what Binance has planned for AI and agentic payments.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Welcome Stephen Gregory To Crypto In America

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

1:00 - Why Steve Joined Binance US As CEO

2:30 - Binance US vs. Global

4:40 -Moving out of "Maintenance Mode": New fiat rails and credit cards5:45 - Derivatives And DCM Path

7:30 - Leading Binance US After Past Issues With Regulators 

11:45 - Prioritizing Which Products To Build

13:30 - The Prediction Market Hype 

15:30 - Retail Traders vs. Institutional Traders - How Does US Exchange Differ From Global 

17:30 - Biggest Growth Driver

20:30 - Scaling In The US Against The Competition

22:30 - The Best Time To Build In The US Is Now

24:30 - DeFi, Tokenization 

27:00 - SuperApp Coming Soon?

28:50 - Binance AI & Agentic Payments

34:15 - Liquidity In The Market

36:00 - Thanks For Joining! Like & Subscribe

#crypto #bitcoin #blockchain #investing #technology #america

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

#crypto #bitcoin #blockchain #investing #technology #america

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

#crypto #bitcoin #blockchain #investing #technology #america

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.