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Synthetic vs. Direct Tokenized Stocks: Who Wins After The SEC Exemption?
The SEC's exemption for tokenized equities has reopened the question every issuer has been working around: should a tokenized stock be a synthetic instrument that tracks the price, or a direct claim on the underlying share? Camila Russo sits down with the lawyers and builders shaping that answer. Rodrigo Seira, partner at Cooley, breaks down what the exemption allows and where the legal lines still sit. Gabriel Otte, co-founder of Dinari, and Peter Curley, head of global regulatory affairs at Ondo Finance, lay out how each model handles custody, investor rights, compliance, and access for non-U.S. users, and which structure is better placed to scale now that the rules have changed. 🗓 Live Wednesday, Sept 23, 11:30am ET Guests: Rodrigo Seira, Partner, Cooley Gabriel Otte, Co-founder, Dinari Peter Curley, Head of Global Regulatory Affairs, Ondo Finance Host: Camila Russo, founder of The Defiant Like, subscribe, and hit the bell so you don't miss our next streams.
Solana's Historic Governance Vote — While Robinhood Invades Its Meme Coin Turf
Solana just took the most historic step in its governance history: its first real on-chain vote, where any SOL holder — not just validators — could weigh in on the network's constitution, inflation and fees. Camila Russo sits down with Nick Almond, Head of Governance at the Jito Foundation, right as that shift collides with a new threat: Robinhood's own chain moving in on meme coins, the one corner of crypto that was always Solana's. Nick breaks down how the vote actually played out — including the disinflation proposal that was decided with eight seconds left after Kraken flipped its vote — how JitoSOL swung its entire stake pool with a 13% quorum trigger, and why he still thinks Solana's shot at attracting new apps, from tokenized stocks to meme coins, is stronger than people give it credit for. Presented by Oasis — a self-custody wallet built on a 2/3 multisig. You hold two keys, Oasis holds a recovery key, and never has unilateral access. Oasis is giving away a CryptoPunk to the first 500 new or upgraded plans through October 31: https://www.oasisvault.io/cryptopunk
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