Ripple Case Win Breakdown | DLx Law, Lewis Cohen | W3W Ep. 21

Web3 Wednesdays

Jul 15 2023 • 37 mins

Ripple's partial win against the SEC is setting off shockwaves across crypto. This is the 30min opinion commentary on the case you can't miss.

❗Don't miss Lewis' previous podcast with us explaining DLx Law's thesis piece, The Ineluctable Modality of Securities Law: https://youtu.be/TuSijQS6utA

Sit down with Sam Peurifoy of Playground Labs & Lewis Cohen of DLx Law, who famously penned the massive (& likely Ripple-impacting) thesis piece the "Ineluctable Modality of Securities Law" earlier last year, which has been included in an amicus briefs filed by Paradigm. The crux of the argument is that while certain issuer-to-investor transactions may be correctly labeled as securities transactions, there's a lot more nuance to the story when you move into secondary transactions which may not involve the original issuer (or token creator) at all.

Lewis' Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYcryptolawyer
DLx Law's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dlxlawllp
Sam's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamPeurifoy
KAP Games' Twitter: https://twitter.com/KAPGamesGG

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Listen on Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2006743/13227456

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Q8LI4_Q7HSg

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0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Ripple Case Overview
3:10 - The Four Big Categories
6:10 - Sales on Exchanges, "Programmatic"
9:20 - Impact to Exchanges & Projects
11:00 - Ineluctable Modality Thesis
14:15 - Decentralization in Background
19:00 - No Issuer-to-Investor Txs on Exchanges
22:10 - Are Tokens Commodities?
25:30 - Employees & Service Providers Sales
29:00 - Airdrop & Service Implications
33:30 - Founders & Insider Sales
36:45 - Concluding Thoughts
37:30 - Outro

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Sam is the CEO of Playground Labs, a web3 venture studio, and  he is a Partner & Head of Interactive at Hivemind Capital, a crypto-focused multi-strategy fund. Follow him on Twitter @SamPeurifoy. Web3 Wednesdays are sponsored by the Kapital DAO, the leading provider of web3 asset management SaaS tools.

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