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Greg Perrin - Wall Street Meets Web3: How Sphinx Is Revolutionizing Financial Exchange Infrastructure
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Greg Perrin, CEO of Sphinx, explains how a purpose-built blockchain can bring 24/7 energy and commodity derivatives trading on chain without tokenising the barrel.
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Chapters
3:34 Meet Greg Perrin and Sphinx
5:03 Democratising commodities trading
8:25 Why commodities are out of reach for most people
11:50 Why Sphinx is not tokenising oil
18:47 Regulation and the FCA sandbox
24:21 The US regulatory shift
30:14 Why Sphinx focuses on energy first
35:43 Cutting clearing and settlement costs
41:36 Working alongside the CME
48:21 Bitcoin mining on oil fields
54:28 Hedging gas and the idea for Sphinx
1:02:34 Building a permissioned Layer 1
1:05:27 The token and the commodities exchange
1:11:19 The liquidity challenge
1:15:42 Order books versus AMMs
1:18:27 Market cycles: zoom out
1:28:15 Teams and relationships
1:32:14 How to get involved
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