Amazing guest Niki Marie Eckardt on the show today where we discuss several crypto related topics: [1:00] What does 2023 hold for Crypto[5:00] What does regulation look like in 2023[12:00] How is funding for crypto shaping up[22:00] Crypto regulation across the globeNiki Marie Eckardt – CEO and Fund manager of NetSource Capital, and CEO of Net Source Inc, brings a wealth of experience in tech investments, venture development and business strategy, focusing on emerging technologies that support a sustainable and equitable future. She leads NetSources investment processes in real estate, diamonds, gold, strategic minerals, and tokenization of many asset classes. She also runs the real estate and venture capital funds.’ An active ecosystem leader in DEI and ESG policies and an ICF-certified master business coach, Niki has been involved in developing and scaling multiple businesses and taking exceptional businesses to 100-million-dollar exits. She holds Masters's degrees in both Psychology and software engineering. Her leadership in building and optimizing strategic partnerships nationally and internationally reflects her extensive experience with investments in portfolio companies and asset categories. Her deep understanding of macroeconomics and global political environments enhances her investing skills.www.netsource.ioThis episode brought to you by www.electoanalytics.com

Pat White is the CEO and co-founder of Bitwave. Bitwave’s mission is to enable any enterprise, business, non-profit, or government to work with digital assets, and take more direct control over their financial future, bypassing traditional financial institutions and investment banks.Pat White is currently Co-founder and CEO of Bitwave, the world's first Enterprise Digital Assets Platform bringing cryptocurrencies, tokens, and other digital assets to the worlds largest companies. We help with accounting, taxes, AR / AP, secure DApps, and more. If your business is looking to adopt crypto, give us a ring!He was formerly a principal engineer and chief architect on Cisco Spark. Formerly, I was the CEO of Synata, a San Francisco startup that provides enterprise search software to cloud-enabled businesses. He has spent the last decade building software at companies such as Intuit, Microsoft, Ally Software, VistaConnect, S3/Diamond Multimedia, Fortify Software (now HP Security), and CyberArts. Pat has extensive experience with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, Exchange, .NET / ASP.NET, Salesforce.com, and Google Apps, as well as expertise in enterprise search products such as FAST, Autonomy, and Google Search Appliance. His passion has always been for start-ups, so growing a successful software company with an incredible team is a dream come true.This episode brought to you by www.electoanalytics.com

This episode is brought to you by Electo AnalyticsCrypto Regulation is happening! And it is happening fast! How are you tracking the legislation that is happening in all 50 states and Congress? Do you have an inside track to stay up to the minute from committee to full Congress votes? I do. And I want to share it with you.Electo Analytics is on a mission to transform how Crypto Regulation is monitored.Recognized as a leading D.C. based software company, Electo Analytics empowers public affairs teams of all sizes to work faster and reach higher. Our scalable software features legislative & regulatory tracking, stakeholder engagement, collaborative project management tools and more.Ready to take your policy work to the next level? Visit electoanalytics.com to learn more.Show Notes: FTX and the Danger of Reactive RegulationToday in the studio Andrew and Alex cover the FTX debacle from a slightly different perspective. They talk a look and talk through the danger of reactive regulation. Congress and the ruling agencies have pressure to act, but is that the best thing for them to do? Listen to find out more!  

Guest: Derek Bobbitt is the founder of Coinalytica, a crypto business analytics startup, and a rising Junior at UNH studying Finance, Information Systems & Business Analytics. Outside of school, he is a Principal at the Rines Angel Investment Fund, and the President of the UNH Entrepreneurship Club where he hopes to foster the next generation of collegiate founders and mentor them through the Shaw Innovation Explorer and Paul Scholar programs.

Lukka CEO Robert MaterazziHello and welcome back to another episode of Lexicon Crypto. We are excited that you are here. We have started to see quite an increase in listeners as the show has begun to gain some traction, and we know it's in great part because of our subscribers and followers. And wanna thank you for that.Please share the show, share the content as you liken as you feel it is helpful to you and to those in your social network. We love getting comments and questions. We've been able to field a lot of those things and even make connections along the way. We're building quite a community here and we're excited to see that and excited that you are a part of it.Today's guest is Robert Materazzi . He's the CEO of Lukka. Lukka is an exciting new platform that has been in the space and in the crypto space now for a little while, but really has started to over the last, I would say, six to 12 months, and Robert will correct me, but I'd say six to 12 months really started to gain some traction and I think that traction is as the market is starting to mature, Starting to evolve to a place where visibility data further insight is growing critically important, especially as we start to see institutional money starting to really view crypto as a viable asset.They need to have the infrastructure in place to be able to support that. And Robert, we're really excited to have you on the show today. We're excited. To hear from you and learn more about Lukka, why don't we start just simply, how did you end up starting a crypto company? Yeah, thank you and thanks for having me, Andrew.We and so I'm actually not the founder of Lukka. I've been with Lukka now just over, over four years. However, the company was founded in 2014 and.  and I was asked to be CO about two years into my employment here. So that was at the beginning of 20 originally, Coco and then the SoCo after we closed our series C fundraise. In end of 2020, that was led by State Street. Okay, great. I was at PWC before, to answer your question, and I was not working in crypto. However, I was working in a lot of large technology and risk driven programs that were very focused. The underlying technology, operational cybersecurity risks associated with all the different products that support the financial institutions across financial services and was introduced to Lukka.I had my eyes opened by an interview on how material crypto assets were being used across the world, even back then, which was really mind blowing, right? And that caused me doing more research and really, When we realized that these assets are traded for one another in fractional quantities across borders without fiat, often as part of the transaction.Anyone that understands that I think would agree that this has the potential to change just commerce across the world in ways that we haven't seen before. So it was really, that was the, I'd say the beginning of the decision and on why I was attracted to the. And then Lukka was doing all the plumbing for that industry.www.lukka.tech

Miller Whitehouse-Levine of the Defi Education Fund joins Andrew in the studio today to discuss the latest news and activity of the DEF. 1:00 - Miller Whitehouse-Levine provides his background from learning of Bitcoin while visiting China on studies, to how he was part of the Uniswap Dao that started the DEF8:00 - Miller begins to provide context and background on the Ooki Dao case and the latest news on the judge accepting the Amicus Brief and forcing the CFTC to respond. Miller calls the action by the CFTC one of the most significant regulatory actions in US history. 22:00 Miller says that the fact that the SEC claimed jurisdiction over crypto 8 yrs ago but has since refused to act is a failure on the part of the SEC. That the US has a 3 trillion dollar industry that has largely no regulatory framework is a serious failure. Listen to the full episode for more details. You can learn more about the Defi Education Fund here: https://www.defieducationfund.org/Subscribe to their Substack here: https://www.defieducationfund.org/blog

In the studio with Andrew today is Eric McHugh a co-founder of Shopx the creator of ReserveX a shopify APP that allows ecommerce partners to tokengate product releases and new memberships.  This platform is just emerging and already has hundreds of brands requesting access. Tokengating is the latest craze with even Shopify writing blog posts about it. Here is a brief bio of our Guest: Eric McHugh is the Chief Growth Officer and one of the founders of SHOPX. SHOPX is leading the way in web3 e-commerce through the use of eNFT's.SHOPX is Web3 commerce simplified. We create a new revenue channel for eCommerce brands without diluting the brand value. , eNFT's are NFT's with eCommerce value.Prior to that, he worked at Snap, bankruptcy consulting, and helped found a social commerce platform with over 100 brands.The easiest way to learn more about SHOPX is to join our discord and ask the team! - https://discord.com/invite/vHwdSdDANHHelpful Links:SHOPX Website - https://shopx.co/SHOPX Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/shopxlabs/SHOPX Twitter - https://twitter.com/shopxlabsEric’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ericdmchugh/Eric’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/ericmchugh0Eric’s Email - [email protected] App Listing - https://apps.shopify.com/shopx?st_source=autocomplete

Every week in crypto is like a year in the real world. This week was no different. In this episode Alex and Andrew share thoughts on what they are watching around Crypto and specifically within CryptoRegs. Share with us what you are watching in Crypto this week! As always subscribe and share! 

Episode 4Andrew: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome back to Lex Con Crypto. We're excited that you are here for yet another episode today, Alex and I are in the studio and we're focused today around this this pesky question that's been bothering us for a little bit. When you're involved in the crypto space, you, you have to do a lot of wonder.You wonder where this is all going. What's gonna happen next? You wonder what new technology's gonna be introduced what new crime is gonna be perpetrated. There's all sorts of things that, that we speculate and wonder about. And so we thought we would do an episode on just that what is it that we are wondering about this week in relation?The crypto market and specifically around regulation. Yeah. Did I, you know, is banter going? But we necessarily wanna to split up a [00:01:00] couple episodes for you. One, with what we're watching in the news, what we've been seeing, and two, what we're wondering. Being things that aren't maybe grounded so much in news stories, concepts being put into words, things that maybe are a little bit futurist, maybe overly paranoid or excited on our part.Alex: But this is the safe space for us to share some of our wonder. And I know Andrew has a couple topics of wonder for us. What do you got? Andrew: My first thing that I'm just wondering about, I want you to know that it's not wondering at the level of losing sleep at night wondering, but definitely something I think about is.What is the outcome of this midterm election have on the development of crypto regulation? And of course there are several bills, two in the Senate, three or four in the house that are being closely watched and have [00:02:00] come very close to completion. But just were did not have enough bipartisan support to be able to.Through to the, the, the House or Senate calendars and to get votes on. And so I'm very, very curious. I'm, I'm wondering how the outcome of the midterm election does power swing from the, from, from Democrat hands in the house to Republican hands. You know, is there a shift in, in the Senate does that usually, I mean, you're, you're a student of political person that it surprises me, like you said, you're not being kept up at night.Not that level of wonder, but I would say for you, it's not an uninformed, you know, curiosity. I would think that you have a pretty good sense of, Yeah. Republicans are probably gonna take the house. Well, it's, it's a, it's a historical fact that the party. Who loses the presidency wins the midterm election.It is the, it is the anomaly that the, that the, the party who wins the presidency also wins the midterm. That's [00:03:00] just Do you think, do you think that the wonderment of it for you is the fact that, you know, this is happening, like so many of these things, so many of these unresolved regulatory things in crypto that maybe folks like you and me have been riffing on for a while, seems that we are.

AML is a huge issue in the crypto space and with regulatory agencies taking stronger actions the compliance issue is growing every day. Our guest on today's show is Brendan Cochrane, J D CAMS. He is a leading expert on the AML space and focuses his practice on the crypto space. Brendan Cochrane, JD, CAMS, is a partner at YK Law LLP where he focuses on cryptocurrency and blockchain matters. Brendan is also Principal and Founder at CryptoCompli, a startup focused on the anti-money laundering compliance needs of cryptocurrency and blockchain businesses.  Brendan is a Massachusetts-licensed attorney and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) with broad legal experience, much of which he accumulated at international law firms in New York and Seoul. Brendan has also worked as a legal analyst for a Tier-1 Fortune 50 commercial and investment bank where he contributed to the bank's Dodd-Frank compliance program, becoming familiar with each of the bank's lines of business in the process. Brendan's experience includes time in the FinTech space working for a startup cryptocurrency business. There, he oversaw investigations into fraudulent Bitcoin and Ethereum transactions utilizing a leading blockchain forensics analytics tool, and piloted anti-money laundering programs for cryptocurrency Money Services Businesses (MSBs).Brendan speaks on anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance issues related to cryptocurrency to various professional associations, including the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists, the Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists, and the California Financial Crimes Investigators Association. Speaking topics have ranged from the use of cryptocurrency to evade sanctions, dark web marketplaces and cryptocurrency, central bank digital currency (CBDC's), and the implications of El Salvador's efforts to make Bitcoin legal tender.Outside of work, Brendan travels every chance he gets, having visited 42 states and 29 countries thus far. When it comes to fall Saturdays, Brendan, a top graduate of the University of Michigan, watches each and every Wolverines football game with great fervor. And lastly, but certainly not least, Brendan enjoys learning Mandarin Chinese from his wife, an accomplished neuroscientist, so that they can make jokes his parents don't understand.