About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of a Supreme Court ruling on crypto regulation and the new UK crypto rulebook.

The Supreme Court just made it easier to fire SEC and CFTC commissioners. Katherine, Jessi, and Vy on why that could reset who controls crypto policy. Plus, the UK's new rulebook. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! ⁠⁠Cape⁠⁠: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your wallet, it's your phone number. Cape is America's privacy-first mobile carrier that rotates your SIM identity daily and blocks SIM swaps before they happen. Get 33% off your first six months at https://cape.co/unchained (use code: UNCHAINED). ======================================================== The Supreme Court just tore up a 90-year-old precedent that kept independent-agency commissioners safe from a president's whims, and almost no one in crypto is talking about what it means for the SEC and the CFTC. Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos, Jessi Brooks, and Vy Le trace how the ruling in Trump v. Slaughter changes who actually controls financial regulation. Then they cross the Atlantic to the UK's sweeping new crypto rulebook and the European Commission's move to expand MiCA just as its first version fully takes effect. They also dig into a Cambridge report showing fighters…

People in this episode

Host: Laura Shin

Guests: Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos, Jessi Brooks, Vy Le

Topics covered

• crypto regulation
• Supreme Court ruling
• SEC and CFTC
• UK crypto rulebook
• MiCA expansion
• civil lawsuits
• crypto liability

Keywords

• crypto
• regulation
• Supreme Court
• SEC
• CFTC
• UK rulebook
• MiCA
• civil lawsuits
• liability
• chatbots

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Cape

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Organizations: Supreme Court, SEC, CFTC, UK, European Commission, Cambridge

Places: America

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