This Week on Unchained: A Fiery Debate, FTX's Developments, Azuki Drop, and More!
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Aaron Kaplan, co-CEO of Prometheum, the trading platform that recently acquired a special-purpose broker dealer license for digital asset securities, has become a major lightning rod in the crypto community.
Does the firm represent, as Kaplan has argued, a compliant path forward for crypto in the United States? Or, as Paradigm Special Counsel Rodrigo Seira maintains, does it only demonstrate that the SEC’s crypto regime is simply unworkable? The two join the show to debate the specifics – and it certainly gets heated.
From “hush money” allegations to a prospective FTX relaunch, it’s been a crazy week for those following the legal saga of Sam Bankman-Fried’s collapsed crypto empire. Perhaps few are following it more closely than 507 Capital founder Thomas Braziel, who specializes in the trading of bankruptcy claims. He explains the significance of a spate of recent headlines and shares newsworthy tidbits from his meeting with new FTX honcho John J. Ray III.
Show highlights:
why the Azuki new NFT collection 'Elementals' caused such a controversy among holders
why Robert bought an Elemental and what was he expecting
how BitGo 'pulled a Binance' on Prime Trust
how Prime Trust, a crypto custodian, collapsed and was put into receivership
what the problems are with current Layer 2 rollups such as Optimism and Arbitrum
why rollups are so 'political' in the Ethereum ecosystem
what makes Arbitrum better than Optimism, according to Tarun
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