The Lexcon Crypto Show - Miller Whitehouse-Levine of Defi Education Fund on DAO regulations

Miller Whitehouse-Levine of Defi Education Fund on DAO regulations

10/14/22 • 31 min

Miller Whitehouse-Levine of the Defi Education Fund joins Andrew in the studio today to discuss the latest news and activity of the DEF.
1:00 - Miller Whitehouse-Levine provides his background from learning of Bitcoin while visiting China on studies, to how he was part of the Uniswap Dao that started the DEF
8:00 - Miller begins to provide context and background on the Ooki Dao case and the latest news on the judge accepting the Amicus Brief and forcing the CFTC to respond. Miller calls the action by the CFTC one of the most significant regulatory actions in US history.
22:00 Miller says that the fact that the SEC claimed jurisdiction over crypto 8 yrs ago but has since refused to act is a failure on the part of the SEC. That the US has a 3 trillion dollar industry that has largely no regulatory framework is a serious failure.
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You can learn more about the Defi Education Fund here: https://www.defieducationfund.org/
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eNFT: The Bridge Between E-commerce and Web3 with Eric McHugh

In the studio with Andrew today is Eric McHugh a co-founder of Shopx the creator of ReserveX a shopify APP that allows ecommerce partners to tokengate product releases and new memberships. This platform is just emerging and already has hundreds of brands requesting access. Tokengating is the latest craze with even Shopify writing blog posts about it.
Here is a brief bio of our Guest:
Eric McHugh is the Chief Growth Officer and one of the founders of SHOPX. SHOPX is leading the way in web3 e-commerce through the use of eNFT's.
SHOPX is Web3 commerce simplified. We create a new revenue channel for eCommerce brands without diluting the brand value. , eNFT's are NFT's with eCommerce value.
Prior to that, he worked at Snap, bankruptcy consulting, and helped found a social commerce platform with over 100 brands.

The easiest way to learn more about SHOPX is to join our discord and ask the team! - https://discord.com/invite/vHwdSdDANH

Helpful Links:

SHOPX Website - https://shopx.co/

SHOPX Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/shopxlabs/

SHOPX Twitter - https://twitter.com/shopxlabs

Eric’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ericdmchugh/

Eric’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/ericmchugh0

Eric’s Email - [email protected]

Shopify App Listing - https://apps.shopify.com/shopx?st_source=autocomplete

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Robert Materazzi CEO of Lukka- Institutional Custody of Crypto and Tools Needed to Support

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.
www.lukka.tech