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The regulatory landscape for crypto post-FTX, with Rebecca Rettig and Peter Van Valkenburgh

UpOnly: Chats with Crypto Experts

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What's the Difference Between Technology-Neutral Laws and Securities Laws?

I'm generally against technology-specific laws, or new regimes crafted around new technologies. Because the technology changes so quickly, if you try and ossify parts of it in the United States code, good luck how people will interpret that in just five years. I would like a flexible and sort of old regime in the sense of a neutral standard for when something is a security or not. But we need to rethink or have an SEC that's willing to rethink how much of the apparatus in the middle are still necessary rather than forcing these market activities to go through structures that are obsolete.

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