A new academic paper makes a strange claim: a stablecoin freeze is not a freeze until the transaction lands in a block, which means the funds it targets can potentially frontrun it.

Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos, Jessi Brooks, and Vy Le work through what sanctions MEV means for the compliance story crypto tells regulators, then open into the third party doctrine and why your AI chats may not be as private as you think.

Hosts

• • Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos, Host of DEX in the City and General Counsel of StarkWare
  • Jessi Brooks, Co-host of DEX in the City and General Counsel of Ribbit Capital
  • Vy Le, Co-host of DEX in the City and General Counsel of Veda

This clip is from a longer conversation on crypto law and regulation. Full episode here.

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