Instant Settlement Is Great Until It's Not with Peter Glyman
Form and Structure
Peter Glyman (Coinbax) joins Patrick Murck to break down the compliance layer missing from enterprise stablecoin payments...and why community banks are running out of time.
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Is the Clarity Act Dead? Debating Crypto's Legislative Future
Form and Structure
Greg Xethalis, Karen Ubell, and Sheila Warren join Patrick Murck to debate the Clarity Act blowup, crypto market structure legislation strategy, and whether there's still a window to pass comprehensive crypto legislation this year or if the industry needs to modularize and pass what it can.
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How AI and RegTech Are Transforming Financial Regulation with Jo Ann Barefoot
Form and Structure
Financial regulation is failing to keep pace with innovation and the results are catastrophic. The UN estimates that less than 1% of financial crime gets caught globally, despite banks spending tens of billions annually on AML compliance. In this episode, Surus CEO Patrick Murck sits down with Jo Ann Barefoot, former Deputy Comptroller of the Currency and CEO of the Alliance for Innovative Regulation, to explore why outdated regulatory technology is the bottleneck preventing both effective crime detection and financial innovation. Featuring Jo Ann Barefoot's decades of experience helping...
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Regulate Who Controls the Money, Not 'Decentralization’
Form and Structure
U.S. policymakers continue to wrestle with how to regulate decentralized finance, stablecoins, and the broader crypto ecosystem. But as our guests Rebecca Rettig and Mike Mosier argue, the central challenge has never been “decentralization.” Instead, the real regulatory question is who has independent control over other people’s value.
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Don’t F** It Up: Why Congress Has One Shot at Crypto Market Structure
Form and Structure
In this monthly policy roundtable, Patrick Murck is joined by Greg Xethalis (General Counsel, Multicoin Capital) and Karen Ubell (Partner, Goodwin) to break down the urgent push for crypto market structure legislation before midterms. They discuss Mike Selig's nomination to chair the CFTC and what his crypto expertise means for the agency's expansion into spot markets. They examine whether Congress should rush legislation or take time to get it right, what the Binance listing terms leak reveals about US regulatory arbitrage, and why moving from 54 state licenses to federal oversight...
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Surus Partners with Protocol Labs to Launch PL Alignment Asset
Form and Structure
Protocol Labs' Juan Benet (Founder & CEO) and Diana Stern (Deputy General Counsel) join Patrick Murck on this week's episode. They discuss launching the PL 'alignment asset' token as a novel way to share incentives across Protocol Labs' network of over 700 companies.
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Making Bitcoin Productive: The $7 Billion Validation
Form and Structure
Patrick Murck hosts David Tse (Co-Founder of Babylon Labs co-founder and Stanford professor) dive into how Babylon attracted nearly $7 billion in Bitcoin staking and explore their new trustless Bitcoin vaults that activate dormant Bitcoin assets for productive use in DeFi.
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Crypto Lending and the UCC's New Digital Asset Rules
Form and Structure
Patrick Murck and Professor Carla Reyes (SMU Law) discuss how the 2022 UCC amendments created "controllable electronic records" to finally align commercial law with crypto lending practices. They explore whether Bitcoin's UTXO system makes security interests practically impossible to enforce, why Florida's attempt to ban CBDCs through state law doesn't actually work, and how the GENIUS Act might prevent stablecoin issuers from paying bankruptcy costs.
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Bitcoin's New Epoch with Pete Rizzo
Form and Structure
In this episode of Form & Structure, Patrick Murck sits down with Pete Rizzo, The Bitcoin Historian and host of the Supply Shock podcast, for a wide-ranging conversation about Bitcoin's evolution and what Pete calls its "new epoch.".
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The Tornado Cash Fallout, Privacy Tech and Bitcoin's Fee Market
Form and Structure
In our Monthly Bitcoin Series episode of Form & Structure, Patrick Murck sits down with Neha Narula (Director, MIT Digital Currency Initiative) and Ethan Heilman (Research Engineer, Cloudflare) to discuss Roman Storm verdict's impact on privacy tech, Bitcoins fee market breakdown, and the "one sat per vbyte" policy debate.
info_outlineIn this episode, Patrick Murck sits down with Ethan Heilman, Research Engineer at Cloudflare and Bitcoin Research Collaborator at MIT DCI, to discuss the complexities of Bitcoin’s scripting limitations, how Collider Script, a novel way to bridge Big Script and Small Script, is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with Bitcoin covenants, and what the future holds for programmable money.
Read the ColliderScript paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1802
Explore more of Ethan Heilman’s work: https://www.ethanheilman.com/