Coffee & Crypto with Lee & Jimmie

Lee Reiners
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The cryptocurrency industry moves quickly! Join Dr. Jimmie Lenz, the Director of Duke University's Master of Engineering program in Financial Technology, and Lee Reiners, lecturing fellow at Duke University and Duke Law, every Friday as they break down the latest developments in crypto. If you want to stay on top of crypto technology, business, and policy, this show is for you!

  1. 1h ago

    July 31st, 2026

    Lee and Jimmie discuss Circle's purchase of roughly 1,000 blockchain patents from IBM, Coinbase's moves in agentic payments, the hidden tax risk in perps, and Robinhood's massive prediction markets revenue.   📺 Watch on YouTube: Coffee & Crypto With Lee & Jimmie    📌 Hosts on X (formerly Twitter): Lee Reiners → @leereiners Jimmie Lenz → @jimmie_lenz 🔗 Related Links: Building For Every Side of the Agentic Economy Circle buys nearly 1,000 blockchain patents from IBM There is a hidden tax risk of crypto perps that no one is talking about, says CME's CEO Robinhood's Event Contract Revenue Tops Crypto and Equities as Q2 Sales Hit a Record $1.31 Billion - Unchained Binance.US to Seek CFTC Designated Contract Market License in August for Prediction Markets Push - Unchained

  2. Jul 24

    July 24th, 2026

    Lee and Jimmie discuss presidential ethics provisions in the Clarity Act, Hester Peirce's warning to vaults, a CBDC conspiracy theory becoming law, and big changes at the Ethereum Foundation.   📺 Watch on YouTube: Coffee & Crypto With Lee & Jimmie  📌 Hosts on X (formerly Twitter): Lee Reiners → @leereiners Jimmie Lenz → @jimmie_lenz 🔗 Related Links: Key Democratic lawmakers say crypto Clarity Act 'falls short' on ethics, other issues SEC's Hester Peirce Warns Crypto Vaults and Onchain Lending May Fall Under Securities Laws - Unchained The CBDC Conspiracy Theory That Became Law – The FinReg Blog Five Former EF Researchers Launch Ethlabs, an Independent Non-Profit R&D Lab for Ethereum Ethereum Institutional Launches as Wall Street 'Front Door,' Backed by Lubin, BitMine, and SharpLink - Unchained Vitalik Buterin Proposes 'Extremely Lean' Ethereum That Cuts Validator State by 95% Using ZK Proofs - Unchained

  3. Jul 17

    July 17th, 2026

    Lee and Jimmie discuss President Trump's crypto profits and how he's investing them, a potential sale of PayPal, a new stablecoin project with big name participants, Circle's full trust charter approval, Swift's tokenized deposit program, DTCC's tokenization project goes live, Robinhood's new blockchain, leadership changes at Coinbase, and the demise of the SEC's trade through rule.   📺 Watch on YouTube: Coffee & Crypto With Lee & Jimmie  📌 Hosts on X (formerly Twitter): Lee Reiners → @leereiners Jimmie Lenz → @jimmie_lenz 🔗 Related Links: Trump invested crypto gains in stocks and bonds, filings show | Reuters PayPal Receives $53 Billion Takeover Offer Involving Stripe - The New York Times Coinbase, Visa, Stripe and More Back New Open USD Stablecoin in Challenge to Circle and Tether - Unchained Circle Wins Final Federal Approval for Its National Trust Bank, Starting With Custody - Unchained Swift Launches Blockchain Ledger as 17 Banks Prepare to Pilot Tokenized Deposit Payments - Unchained DTCC Begins Limited Tokenized-Asset Trades With JPMorgan, BlackRock and Goldman Cobie Takes Charge of Coinbase's Base App - Unchained Robinhood Accelerates Global Expansion with Robinhood Chain Mainnet, Stock Tokens, Agentic Trading and New Suite of DeFi Products With SEC fight over, Coinbase's top legal exec Grewal moves on, and others reassigned SEC.gov | SEC Proposes Rescission of Regulation NMS Rules 611 and 610(e) Battle over blockchain stock ownership is heading to Washington regulators

  4. Jun 19

    June 19th, 2026

    Lee and Jimmie reflect on the $2.3 billion Donald Trump and his family have made off of crypto, CME suing the CFTC over perps, Sam Bankman-Fried losing his appeal, and a suite of new product offerings from Coinbase.    📺 Watch on YouTube: Coffee & Crypto With Lee & Jimmie  📌 Hosts on X (formerly Twitter): Lee Reiners → @leereiners Jimmie Lenz → @jimmie_lenz 🔗 Related Links: Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins. Investors don't | Reuters UFC to pay White House fighters in crypto issued by Trump company | Trump administration | The Guardian CME chief executive says company plans to sue CFTC after perpetual futures approval Sam Bankman-Fried Loses Appeal of His FTX Fraud Conviction as Second Circuit Rejects Unfair-Trial Claims - Unchained Gallego and Lummis Introduce Resolution Disapproving of Any Sam Bankman-Fried Pardon Coinbase Enters the Tokenized Stock Race With 1:1-Backed Onchain Shares as Part of a Sweeping 'Everything Exchange' Push - Unchained

  5. Jun 12

    June 12th, 2026

    Lee and Jimmie preview the SpaceX IPO before discussing a vulnerability in Zcash, big banks' plans for tokenized deposits, MoneyGram's new stablecoin, and two new research papers from the BIS and Federal Reserve that challenge industry narratives around stablecoins. 📺 Watch on YouTube: Coffee & Crypto With Lee & Jimmie  📌 Hosts on X (formerly Twitter): Lee Reiners → @leereiners Jimmie Lenz → @jimmie_lenz 🔗 Related Links: AI-Assisted Audit Uncovers Critical Zcash Orchard Vulnerability That Could Have Minted Unlimited Counterfeit ZEC - Unchained Exclusive | JPMorgan, Citi and Big Banks Plan New Tokenized Deposit System to Answer Crypto - WSJ Exclusive: MoneyGram Launches Dollar-Pegged Stablecoin work1359.pdf 2026037pap.pdf

  6. Jun 5

    June 5th, 2026

    Lee and Jimmie do a deep dive into perpetual futures, including the CFTC's recent approval to allow Bitcoin perpetual futures in the U.S.   📺 Watch on YouTube: Coffee & Crypto With Lee & Jimmie    📌 Hosts on X (formerly Twitter):   • Lee Reiners → @leereiners • Jimmie Lenz → @jimmie_lenz   🔗 Related Links: What American crypto asset perpetuals mean for the future of crypto 2026-11020.pdf (SECURED) https://youtu.be/xvTFNusTE9M?si=RNkn0qDmLvbyHi4e This Crypto-Trading Platform Is Emerging as Wall Street's Convenience Store - WSJ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danspuller_hyperliquid-share-7466158899289600000-apiH/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAMoOsABNT6ceKXKNKUvhX8NBIOaRpdToQc

  7. May 29

    May 29th, 2026

    Lee and Jimmie discuss problems with prediction markets and regulatory capture at the CFTC, the BIS's project to improve cross-border payments, debates in Europe over how to address stablecoin dollarization,  Prometheum's efforts to distribute tokenized securities through broker-dealers and RIAs, and SoFi's new stablecoin. 📺 Watch on YouTube: Coffee & Crypto With Lee & Jimmie  📌 Hosts on X (formerly Twitter): • Lee Reiners → @leereiners • Jimmie Lenz → @jimmie_lenz 🔗 Related Links: How Prediction Markets and Crypto Firms Steamrolled a Watchdog Agency - The New York Times Press release: Project Agorá shows how tokenisation can improve wholesale cross-border payments; work will advance to real-value testing ECB rebuffs proposals to boost euro stablecoins as too risky | Reuters Prometheum says tokenized securities need Wall Street distribution to scale SoFi Technologies, Inc. (SOFI) - SoFiUSD Becomes the First Stablecoin Issued by a US National Bank to Launch on a Banking Platform

  8. May 22

    May 22nd, 2026

    Lee and Jimmie discuss President Trump's Executive Order on FinTech, the Fed's proposed Payment Account, new data on crypto adoption, the SEC's planned tokenization exemption, and SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce's pending departure. 📺 Watch on YouTube: Coffee & Crypto With Lee & Jimmie  📌 Hosts on X (formerly Twitter): • Lee Reiners → @leereiners • Jimmie Lenz → @jimmie_lenz 🔗 Related Links: Integrating Financial Technology Innovation into Regulatory Frameworks – The White House Federal Reserve Board - Federal Reserve Board requests public comment on a proposal to establish a "payment account," which legally eligible financial institutions could use for the specific purpose of clearing and settling their payments Why the OCC's Stablecoin Charter Push Is Illegal, Dangerous, and Likely to End in Bailouts – The FinReg Blog  SEC Said to Ready Plan for Trading Crypto Versions of Stocks (1) SEC's Hester Peirce to Leave Regulator for Regent University Law Faculty Role - Bloomberg

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The cryptocurrency industry moves quickly! Join Dr. Jimmie Lenz, the Director of Duke University's Master of Engineering program in Financial Technology, and Lee Reiners, lecturing fellow at Duke University and Duke Law, every Friday as they break down the latest developments in crypto. If you want to stay on top of crypto technology, business, and policy, this show is for you!

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