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# Crypto Regulation: Misconceptions, Trends, & Predictions with Kevin Batteh \[High Stakes with Alex Nwaka\]

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Validation Cloud's CSO Alex Nwaka sits down with [Kevin Batteh](https://deltastrategygroup.com/professionals/kevin-batteh), a Partner at D.C.'s Delta Strategy Group, to talk about misconceptions between the crypto industry and regulators, trends he sees in crypto regulation, predictions based on upcoming elections, and more.

[Delta Strategy Group](https://deltastrategygroup.com/) is a full service government affairs firm that represents exchanges, asset managers, energy companies, and more to help guide them through key regulatory reform and financial legislation. Kevin is a financial services lawyer with over twenty years of futures and swaps regulatory experience. Kevin supports clients across many areas including regulatory compliance, enforcement, and policy issues related to domestic and international derivatives and energy markets. Kevin is also a senior advisor to several blockchain and digital currency companies.

##### **Episode Overview**

- Kevin's background and experience as a Partner at Delta Strategy Group in Washington, D.C.
- Misconceptions about crypto regulation between the crypto industry and regulators
- Impact of upcoming elections on US crypto policy

> "We always talk about the pace of innovation quickening over time. At the turn of the last century, we had cars and phones. Then within the span of a couple of decades, we had cell phones and video calls. Things move very quickly over time. They move faster...And I feel like it's been a bit of that with our regulatory journey too. I feel like we're kind of getting to a hockey stick on our regulatory journey."
> 
> ### - Kevin Batteh, Delta Strategy Group

- How crypto policy influences institutional adoption of Web3
- The Chevron Doctrine and its impact on the crypto industry

> "Education. We have to educate lawmakers and staffers on the Hill about how our markets work and the importance for well-thought regulatory legislation that will allow the regulators to regulate."
> 
> - Kevin Batteh, Delta Strategy Group, on future trends in the crypto regulatory space

- Crypto regulation outside of the US
- Kevin's High Stakes Hot Take for crypto regulation in 2024 and into the new year

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