The Crypto Tape – The Parallel Track the SEC Is Building for Crypto with Kristin Smith

Kristin Smith, President of the Solana Policy Institute, joins Frank Chaparro on The Crypto Tape for a clear-eyed read on the crypto policy journey. Kristin explains why she thinks the CLARITY Act is far from dead, with a bipartisan Senate vote still live for September, and why the SEC and CFTC are building a parallel track using token-offering exemptions to a potential innovation exemption for trading tokenized securities. She walks through the political knot around ethics and the banking lobby's opposition that stalled Clarity, and describes what the Solana Policy Institute adds by putting the protocol layer in the lobbying room. She also closes on the single regulatory move she's most excited about and why it could bring a slice of a $100 trillion global market onchain.An insider's map of the fight over crypto's rules, from one of the most experienced policy voices in the industry.