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Blockchain technology is about to transform every trust-based interaction of our lives, from financial services to identity, from health care to our Internet of Things devices. In this podcast, host Laura Shin talks with industry pioneers across tech, financial services, health care, government and other sectors about how the blockchain and cryptocurrency will open up new opportunities for incumbents, startups and everyday people to interact more efficiently, directly and globally.

Apr 29, 2022

Chris Perkins, president of CoinFund, a web3 investment firm, discusses his experience at the Crypto Bahamas conference before diving into an FTX.US proposal that would allow for direct trading of crypto derivatives in the US – which appears to be rocking the boat of certain regulators in D.C. Show topics:

  • Chris’s two biggest takeaways from his Crypto Bahamas experience
  • how Chris’s experience at Lehman Brothers and Citi prepared him for crypto 
  • what issues arise via the plumbing of traditional financial markets
  • why centralized intermediaries make derivatives trading efficient
  • what FTX.US is proposing and how it could be a boon for retail traders
  • how crypto settlement would work compared to the current batch trading method
  • why the acquisition of LedgerX enabled FTX.US to make this proposal
  • what license FTX.US feels like it no longer needs since it can settle derivative transactions on a blockchain
  • whether FTX.US would expand to other derivatives and what that might do to an entity like CME
  • what Chris is listening for in the CFTC’s public discussion surrounding FTX.US’s proposal 
  • whether FTX.US’s proposal will be a partisan issue

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Episode Links

 

Chris Perkins

 

Coverage of the FTX.US Proposal

 

Unchained Coverage of FTX.US and LedgerX