#390: Veronica McGregor, Chief Legal Officer at Exodus, on Regulatory Reform, Legislative Clarity, and The Importance of Self Custody

Veronica McGregor has served as Chief Legal Officer of Exodus since January 2022. Prior to joining Exodus, Veronica was the chief legal officer of ShapeShift from 2018 to 2021, where she managed in-house legal and compliance functions, global legal strategy, governmental relations, and regulatory affairs. Prior to that, she was a partner at Goodwin Proctor from 2016 to 2018 and Hogan Lovells from 2014 to 2016, where she specialized in assisting companies navigate state and federal laws and regulations related to digital assets, among other things.

Veronica has a Juris Doctor from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from San Francisco State University.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Regulatory Reform as a Bipartisan Imperative
- Institutionalizing Crypto Education for Legislative Clarity
- Establishing the U.S. as a Global Blockchain Hub
- Crypto’s influence proved pivotal in shaping election outcomes
- Crypto Sentiment and Outlook Post-Election
- BTC all-time high
- The SEC’s stance on crypto; will it ever change?
- Crypto - the only industry that asks to be regulated
- Changing the negative narrative of crypto
- Exodus’s $1.3M donation to Stand with Crypto
- The power of self custody

Exodus
Website: www.exodus.com
X: @exodus_io
Discord: discord.gg/exodus

Veronica McGregor
X: @vkm1
LinkedIn: Veronica McGregor

 
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