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About this episode
Innovation has a way of outpacing legislation. That leaves founders in emerging industries with a distinct challenge: complying to laws that have yet to be written. Enter Dave Rodman, counsel to some of the top projects in web3 (including Coinshift). The Denver-based founder of The Rodman Law Group met *Not Financial Advice fireside in his home town to get candid about staying above board when you're building at the frontier that is onchain finance.
Timestamps
00:00 – Sneak peek
00:13 – How Dave became Coinshift’s lawyer
02:29 – The “Sequoia moment” and trusting your gut
03:10 – Most difficult part about being a crypto lawyer
04:41 – Building a risk-based law firm in an unregulated industry
07:36 – csUSDL: Why Coinshift’s approach works (legally)
10:12 – Stablecoins vs. CBDCs, and the USD as global infrastructure
13:21 – Consumer vs. institutional use cases for stablecoins
15:04 – Why U.S. crypto legislation is still stuck
20:12 – How lawyers evaluate a ‘good’ stablecoin
21:24 – Rapid fire: Legal stack picks, bull vs. bear, and the memecoin chaos
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