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	Podcast:		Law of Code
	Episode:		#169 - Drew Hinkes shares 2026 crypto law predictions
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:34:15
	Publish Date:		2026-01-26 10:00:00
	Description:		What should the industry be watching in 2026? Drew Hinkes is a partner at Winston & Strawn and a longtime crypto lawyer whose work spans DeFi, market structure, tokenization, and digital asset regulation. Timestamps: ➡️ 1:53 — Tokenization, RWAs, and institutional crypto’s next phase ➡️ 4:00 — Market structure gaps and DeFi’s unresolved treatment ➡️ 6:09 — AML creep and the risk to permissionless finance ➡️ 8:15 — Why DeFi depends on interfaces—and where regulation can bite ➡️ 12:28 — Grey areas after market structure: why uncertainty remains ➡️ 17:05 — Equity vs. tokens and what token holders are actually promised ➡️ 23:57 — Tokenization vs. TradFi capture: competition or consolidation ➡️ 29:03 — The biggest systemic risks to crypto in 2026 ➡️ 31:17 — Crypto’s most underappreciated source of resilience Sponsor: This episode is brought to you by the Decentralization Research Center (DRC), a nonprofit think tank advocating for decentralization in emerging technologies. Learn more at thedrcenter.org. Resources:
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