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With Paul Atkins as the incoming SEC Chair, David Sacks as the AI & Crypto Czar, and potential CFTC leadership changes, the Trump administration is signaling a major shift for crypto, AI, and financial regulation.

Guests Mike Selig and Jake Chervinsky break down what this means for token launches, enforcement actions, inter-agency collaboration, and the fate of Operation Chokepoint 2.0. Could this mark the end of the U.S.’s regulatory hostility toward innovation?

Show highlights:

  • What changes to expect under an Atkins-led SEC
  • Who could lead the SEC in the period between Gensler resigning and Atkins assuming
  • Whether the Democrats will nominate SEC Commissioner Crenshaw again
  • Elizabeth Warren’s influence on the non-Republican SEC commissioner picks
  • Whether Atkins’ leadership at the SEC might shift crypto regulation away from aggressive enforcement
  • Whether Gensler’s recent promotion of people in enforcement roles will further his SEC’s regulation-by-enforcement strategy
  • Whether the SEC and Coinbase will reach a settlement
  • Why Mike and Jake think it’s not likely that the SEC will pursue litigation in the Ripple case
  • How the SEC might clarify securities laws around token sales, airdrops, and exemptions
  • Whether Atkins’ leadership could fast-track Hester Peirce’s Safe Harbor
  • How the CFTC’s potential lead on crypto regulation might redefine how it splits duties with the SEC
  • Whether it even makes sense to have two financial regulatory agencies
  • Who might lead the CFTC
  • Why Jake and Mike believe combining AI and crypto under one ‘czar’ makes sense
  • How the appointment of Scott Bessent for Treasury secretary will affect the crypto industry
  • How the likely end to Operation Chokepoint 2.0 will create a “sea change”

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