Crypto’s most controversial trading product might be Wall Street’s next obsession.

In this interview, Brett Harrison, former president of FTX.US and founder of Architect Financial Technologies, joins to explain how he’s aiming to take perpetual futures — crypto’s 24/7 leveraged trading engine — to traditional markets like stocks, commodities, and FX.

Will this be the next big shift in global finance?

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Guest:

Brett Harrison, Founder & CEO of Architect Financial Technologies

Links:

The Defiant: Former FTX US President Brett Harrison to Launch Perpetuals Exchange

Timestamps:

💡 0:00 Introduction
🏗️ 1:43 What problems Architect is trying to solve
📜 4:27 The two licenses Architect holds — with the SEC and CFTC
⚖️ 6:18 The key difference between CFDs and perpetual futures
🌐 8:15 Who Architect’s products are designed for
💥10:02 What crypto learned the hard way from the Oct. 10 liquidation event
📊 15:25 Why reputable benchmarks are critical for pricing assets
💰 18:02 How leverage actually works in these new exchanges
🛡️ 22:03 How Architect’s insurance fund is built
🎯 22:46 Whether prediction markets will ever offer leverage
💵 24:35 Why Architect includes interest rate swaps
🔗 25:27 How tokenization could affect the derivatives trading space
🚀 28:50 How Architect plans to attract users and market makers
🔥 31:50 What Brett is most excited about next

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