Coffee & Crypto with Lee & Jimmie

Hosted by Lee Reiners

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Aug 2026

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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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August 14, 202644 min

August 14th, 2026

Lee and Jimmie discuss the SEC's delayed announcement of an "innovation exemption," Wells Fargo's tokenized deposit product, new tokenized money market funds coming to Europe, UK banks saying no to crypto customers, tokenizing metals, and a new government policy that may let companies hack back. 📺 Watch on YouTube: Coffee & Crypto With Lee & Jimmie 📌 Hosts on X (formerly Twitter): Lee Reiners → @leereiners Jimmie Lenz → @jimmie_lenz 🔗 Related Links: SEC to again delay 'innovation exemption' for tokenization amid Wall Street, White House concerns Exclusive | Wells Fargo to Roll Out Tokenized Deposits for Corporate Clients - WSJ BlackRock Launches Tokenized Money Market Funds in Europe - Bloomberg Digital gold, copper and uranium: prospectors stake bets on metals-crypto fusion Banks' refusal to take on crypto firms risks stunting UK industry's growth, lawmakers say Trump signed memo to allow use of cyber tools to target transnational criminal organizations, White House says | Reuters

August 6, 202645 min

August 6th, 2026

Lee and Jimmie discuss the threat quantum computing poses to crypto and Lee's new paper on the subject, the Coinkite Bitcoin wallet hack, and a new crypto index from S&P that excludes Bitcoin. 📺 Watch on YouTube: Coffee & Crypto With Lee & Jimmie 📌 Hosts on X (formerly Twitter): Lee Reiners → @leereiners Jimmie Lenz → @jimmie_lenz 🔗 Related Links: Jim Cramer Is Selling His Bitcoin Over Quantum Threat—Crypto Twitter Is Thrilled Why Financial Regulators Need a Plan for Quantum-Vulnerable Digital Assets – The FinReg Blog Coldcard Bitcoin Wallets Compromised as Hackers Exploit Software Flaw - Bloomberg S&P Dow Jones New Crypto Index Snubs Bitcoin, Not a Revenue-Generating Protocol

July 31, 202634 min

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

July 24, 202643 min

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

July 17, 20261 hr 8 min

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

June 19, 202652 min

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

June 12, 202643 min

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

June 5, 202639 min

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

May 29, 202637 min

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

May 22, 202637 min

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