Sasha Hodder
@sashahodler
Founder of Hodder Law Firm - Helping companies operate legally within the digital assets space. Organizer of the Bitcoin Race 🏁
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TradFi may be absorbing the crypto industry faster than people realize.
The SEC just proposed new rules to make it easier for Investment Advisers and Funds to custody crypto.
That includes pathways for self-custody.
So far, Advisors have to rely on qualified custodians
This is a big change for crypto custody!
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these grok bots are so good.
NYSE just signed a deal with Blockchain. com to bring tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs to its 44 million users.
Securities law is about to get a lot more interesting.
AI researchers reportedly deanonymized Reddit users for about $2 in compute.
Online privacy is becoming a much harder problem than simply using a pseudonym.
DC Internal Affairs used Flock to secretly track its own officers under misconduct investigations.
Now the police union is fighting to stop it.
Funny how the cops who put up the cameras suddenly hate being watched.
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A reported $6.9 BILLION forgery scheme moved through traditional banks.
Worth remembering the next time someone says crypto invented money laundering.
The SEC just clarified that ongoing network maintenance, future utility, liquid staking, and token buybacks do not automatically make a token a security.
Any of these actions would have been enough for Biden's administration to sue!
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🏆 Sunset Circuit is coming to TABConf in Atlanta!
Push-ups. Squat jumps. Plank.
$15 to compete. Half the entry fees go to the winner.
Who’s in?
My prediction:
In five years, people won’t talk about “tokenized assets” any more than they talk about “internet banking.”
It’ll just be how assets move.
The NYSE preparing for 24/7 onchain settlement feels like another step in that direction.
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A great afternoon at the beach with @SEAisMEDICINE !
Thousands of NFTs were vulnerable to being stolen for 0 ETH through a Magic Eden contract.
The VP of Yuga Labs swept everything to protect it.
It's Hacktember!
Kalshi’s marketing team is ruthless!
i guess kalshi saw this and thought they should steal my video, turn me into a white dude, and run it as an ad
Two Robinhood engineers allegedly front-ran token listings on Hyperliquid using confidential info.
DOJ just charged them with commodities and wire fraud.
NYSE putting stocks on-chain for 44 million users is a pretty massive signal.
The future of finance is TradFi running on crypto rails.
Confidence isn’t built by telling yourself you can do hard things.
It’s built by collecting evidence that you can.
Every hard thing you don’t avoid becomes another data point.
What if the AI boom is already too big to fail?
If demand for compute slows, the government may have to prop it up.
More spending. More liquidity.
Good for Bitcoin.
Weird crypto disgorgement question:
Trevon James made millions promoting BitConnect. His Bitcoin was later hacked and stolen, and the government may have recovered some of it.
Should the SEC still be able to make him disgorge the same gains?
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The SEC is preparing for 24-hour stock trading.
Crypto spent years being told it needed to become more like traditional finance.
Funny how traditional finance keeps becoming more like crypto.
