On The Brink with Castle Island

Muneeb Ali, cofounder of Blockstack, joins the show to talk about the launch of Stacks 2.0 and its evolution from a securities offering to a freely tradable instrument in the U.S. New developments with Stacks and a novel legal opinion What constitutes sufficient decentralization and how Blockstack took cues from regulators Why Blockstack felt empowered to list their token on public US exchanges The current state of Blockstack governance Reflections on Ethereum's purported transmutation How Blockstack did the first reg A+ securities offering for a cryptoasset Why securities registration is worthwhile for token issuance Whether the SEC disclosure framework is suitable for the issuance of a token Alternative disclosure and securities offering frameworks for registered token issuance Whether Blockstack was willing to treat Stacks as a security in perpetuity Why security tokens haven't taken off in the US so far The evolution from Stacks 1.0 to Stacks 2.0, and the differences between the two Why Blockstack cho