On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, host Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Strike CEO Jack Mallers, who explains why he stepped down as CEO of Twenty One Capital, makes his case for bitcoin as "the most American money," and unpacks the launch of Strike Private. Zero Knowledge Group Founder and CEO Austin Campbell breaks down the CLARITY Act's failure to advance in the Senate, why the GENIUS Act has already reshaped the regulatory landscape, and how crypto has become caught in a broader fight over congressional ethics heading into the midterms. Plus, Christian Lopez, Managing Director and Head of Blockchain and Digital Assets at Cohen & Company Capital Markets, on the Fed's rate hike, how Anthropic's looming IPO is soaking up market liquidity, and why the tokenization of real-world assets is pulling Wall Street into crypto.
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Chapters/Timecodes:
00:00 Welcome to Public Keys
00:26 Markets: Bitcoin Tops $85K After the Fed Hike
00:50 Oil, Iran and the Trump-Xi Summit
01:13 Anthropic Pushes Its IPO to November
01:31 Strike CEO Jack Mallers Joins
02:04 Why Mallers Left Twenty One Capital
04:28 Mallers' Bitcoin Outlook and Advice
06:22 Why Bitcoin Doesn't Need the CLARITY Act
08:19 Bitcoin as Legal Tender and 'The Most American Money'
09:50 Inside Strike Private and Bitcoin-Backed Loans
13:10 Austin Campbell on the CLARITY Act's Senate Defeat
14:58 Why GENIUS Already Changed the Game
16:01 Crypto, the Midterms and the Ethics Fight
18:00 Could a Future Administration Undo the Rules?
19:47 Stablecoins as the Leading Force
21:35 Bitcoin and Ether ETF Flows
22:24 Christian Lopez on the Fed and Risk Assets
24:28 How the Anthropic IPO Soaks Up Liquidity
26:21 Q3 Earnings and Tokenizing Real-World Assets
28:44 Why TradFi Is Racing Into Crypto
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