The Lexcon Crypto Show

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.

Episode 4

Andrew: [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.

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Show Notes: FTX and the Danger of Reactive Regulation
Today 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!

Lukka CEO Robert Materazzi
Hello 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.
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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.
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