This Week on Unchained: SEC Commissioner's 'Frustration,' Uniswap v4, Hong Kong Regulation, and More! 💥
Plus: The testimony of Prometheum's cofounder catches the attention of the crypto community 👀
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has a reputation in the industry for being more supportive of crypto than her peers. After a rough year for the industry, Peirce weighs in on whether the agency was right in recently naming several crypto tokens as securities, the state of the current regulatory framework, and the slow pace of change.
“All I can say is that I’ve been at the agency for over five years, and it’s very frustrating to me that in that time we haven’t done something more productive,” Peirce tells Unchained.
Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner, chop it up about the latest crypto news.
In this episode, they discuss the release of emails around Hinman's 2018 speech saying ETH was not presently a security, give the skinny on a drama in Solana over whether to fork to cut off Alameda’s SOL, and cover how Binance.US is dealing with a move to freeze its assets. Moreover, the group kicks off with a brief history lesson on the infamous PEPE meme, and gives their analysis on Uniswap’s V4 and how it will change the nature of the most popular dex.
On June 1, Hong Kong implemented new crypto regulations to license exchanges. Two experts – Angelina Kwan, CEO of Stratford Finance (and former COO of BitMEX), and Adrian Lai, founder and managing partner of Newman Capital – weigh in on the new rules in Hong Kong, which tokens can be listed, recent reports that China may be sanctioning this activity, and how the crypto community is responding so far.
Plus, they dissect the latest developments of the digital yuan, whether China will ever embrace public blockchains, and the shifting global regulatory landscape for crypto, and more.
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