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Will Perps Eat All of Finance? Ex-FTX.US CEO Brett Harrison Bets Yes - Ep. 940
Manage episode 517899018 series 1822984
Crypto’s most controversial trading product might be Wall Street’s next obsession.
In this interview, Brett Harrison, former president of FTX.US and founder of Architect Financial Technologies, joins to explain how he’s aiming to take perpetual futures — crypto’s 24/7 leveraged trading engine — to traditional markets like stocks, commodities, and FX.
Will this be the next big shift in global finance?
Thank you to our sponsors!
Guest:
Brett Harrison, Founder & CEO of Architect Financial Technologies
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Timestamps:
💡 0:00 Introduction
🏗️ 1:43 What problems Architect is trying to solve
📜 4:27 The two licenses Architect holds — with the SEC and CFTC
⚖️ 6:18 The key difference between CFDs and perpetual futures
🌐 8:15 Who Architect’s products are designed for
💥10:02 What crypto learned the hard way from the Oct. 10 liquidation event
📊 15:25 Why reputable benchmarks are critical for pricing assets
💰 18:02 How leverage actually works in these new exchanges
🛡️ 22:03 How Architect’s insurance fund is built
🎯 22:46 Whether prediction markets will ever offer leverage
💵 24:35 Why Architect includes interest rate swaps
🔗 25:27 How tokenization could affect the derivatives trading space
🚀 28:50 How Architect plans to attract users and market makers
🔥 31:50 What Brett is most excited about next
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998 episodes
Manage episode 517899018 series 1822984
Crypto’s most controversial trading product might be Wall Street’s next obsession.
In this interview, Brett Harrison, former president of FTX.US and founder of Architect Financial Technologies, joins to explain how he’s aiming to take perpetual futures — crypto’s 24/7 leveraged trading engine — to traditional markets like stocks, commodities, and FX.
Will this be the next big shift in global finance?
Thank you to our sponsors!
Guest:
Brett Harrison, Founder & CEO of Architect Financial Technologies
Links:
Timestamps:
💡 0:00 Introduction
🏗️ 1:43 What problems Architect is trying to solve
📜 4:27 The two licenses Architect holds — with the SEC and CFTC
⚖️ 6:18 The key difference between CFDs and perpetual futures
🌐 8:15 Who Architect’s products are designed for
💥10:02 What crypto learned the hard way from the Oct. 10 liquidation event
📊 15:25 Why reputable benchmarks are critical for pricing assets
💰 18:02 How leverage actually works in these new exchanges
🛡️ 22:03 How Architect’s insurance fund is built
🎯 22:46 Whether prediction markets will ever offer leverage
💵 24:35 Why Architect includes interest rate swaps
🔗 25:27 How tokenization could affect the derivatives trading space
🚀 28:50 How Architect plans to attract users and market makers
🔥 31:50 What Brett is most excited about next
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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