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Rika Khurdayan

@RKhurdayan

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Human, New Yorker, Subtle Decentralist | CLGB @SpaceandTimeDB | Former US CLO @Bitstamp | Tweets are my opinions only and certainly not legal advice

New York, NY
Joined October 2018
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
Big news to share ๐Ÿ”ฅ moving light-speed fast here at @SpaceandTimeDB with the best team, partners and investors!
@SpaceandTimeDB
Space and Time
2 months
We are thrilled to announce that Space and Time Labs has secured a $20M Series A, bringing our total funding to $50 million. ๐Ÿš€โณ SxT is empowering the community to own their future in an AI-powered world by providing the tools they need to build sophisticated, data-driven
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Rika Khurdayan
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Proud to join the superteam at @SpaceandTimeDB ! Their ambition, energy, diligence and commitment to innovation are contagious ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€
@holiday_nate
Nate Holiday
3 months
CLOs have superpowers with outsized impact on emerging markets! Thrilled to get to work with, @RKhurdayan at @SpaceandTimeDB
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
Huge thanks for the warm welcome, @SpaceandTimeDB community! Just 4 days in and Iโ€™m blown away by how sharp, professional and just plain cool everyone is on this team, and the tech we are building๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€
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Rika Khurdayan
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Hands down, the best legal conference in the crypto space. Unmatched quality of speakers, attendees and content, and an excellent platform for honest and thoughtful discourse. Huge thanks to @xethalis @thejoycelai and @DonnaRedel for bringing us together and creating a truly
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Greg Xethalis
22 days
300 of the top crypto lawyers, now listening in to our litigators. โฆ @FordhamCrypto โฉ
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
Presentation skills level god at @SpaceandTimeDB @chiefbuidl
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
Gigabrains indeed! What an impressive team of builders, doers and go-getters, and just a group of wonderful people.
@SpaceandTimeDB
Space and Time
2 months
Gigabrains IRL ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿง  We can't wait to show you everything the team is cooking up at SxT. ๐Ÿฉท
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
Yes yes yes! This team โšก๏ธ
@SpaceandTimeDB
Space and Time
2 months
The first sub-second ZK coprocessor just got even faster ๐Ÿคฏ Weโ€™re excited to share the latest Proof of SQL benchmarks, which show a ~40% increase in performance since the repo was made available on GitHub in June. You can now prove analytic queries againstโ€ฆ ๐ŸŸฃย 100k rows of
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
reposting all day ๐Ÿ”ฅ so proud of @SpaceandTimeDB team!
@CoinDesk
CoinDesk
2 months
. @SpaceandTimeDB a blockchain-native data warehouse that incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) tools to build applications using its data, has raised $20 million in Series A funding. By @JamieCrawleyCD
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
Musing on the legal side of blockchain, AI, and working with an incredible team @SpaceandTimeDB . A dream combo for any lawyer - shaping the future of tech with the best in the game ๐Ÿš€ Thanks @hackernoon for the chat #VerifyEverything
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HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
2 months
Explore how Rika Khurdayan, Space and Time's new CLO, is shaping the legal landscape for AI-blockchain integration. - #behindthestartup #spaceandtime
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
Analytics of web3 business models using onchain data now on @SpaceandTimeDB !
@holiday_nate
Nate Holiday
2 months
Welcome, Space and Tokens! Thrilled to have this team of gigabrains join the SxT mission of empowering the community to build apps onchain, tokenize their economies and own the future!
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
Fantastic write-up in @FortuneMagazine by @leomschwartz . Weโ€™re focused on the futureโ€”powering next-gen AI apps with verified on-chain data using our zk-coprocessor. So many possibilities with this tech!
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Leo Schwartz
2 months
Another startup building at the buzzy intersection of AI and blockchain โ€” except this one has the backing of Microsoft and $20 million in fresh funding. My write-up:
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
Ohhhh oooopsie, we didnโ€™t mean to say that these assets are securities ๐Ÿ˜ฌ we just randomly pick assets we allege to be securities when we sue people for trading them but they are really not and we never said they were [yes, they did] ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ
@iampaulgrewal
paulgrewal.eth
2 months
"The SEC regrets any confusion it may have invited" by falsely and repeatedly stating that tokens themselves are securities. This is the remarkable representation in Footnote 6 of @SECGov 's Amended Complaint against Binance. I hope @s_alderoty is getting some good sleep tonight.
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Rika Khurdayan
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Grateful to be part of a team at @SpaceandTimeDB that strives to create a happy and successful work environment ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿผ No better group of people to ride the waves of startup life together! (Couple shots form our offsite - 6am full moon surf and whale watching)
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@holiday_nate
Nate Holiday
2 months
I've always strived to be in the right "rooms." I strive to work with the brightest in the industry and challenge myself to learn more, stay curious, and work with people that have a strong bias for action / progress. I'm grateful to work alongside this incredible team of data
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Rika Khurdayan
5 months
Big news to share!
@Bitstamp
Bitstamp
5 months
We have some exciting news: weโ€™re joining forces with Robinhood Crypto! Together, we will deliver an even better experience for all of our customers. Between the two of us, youโ€™re in good hands ๐Ÿค Learn more:
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
The court in CA denied Krakenโ€™s motion to dismiss. Surprising? No. Refreshing? Yes, this one line in the order
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@RKhurdayan
Rika Khurdayan
6 years
Hey โฆ @PwC โฉ โฆ @PwCTax โฉ โฆ @PwCAdvisory โฉ โฆ @PwCTax โฉ โฆ @PwCUS โฉ โฆ @PwC_IN โฉ - have anything to say about this besides just quietly taking the report down?
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Rika Khurdayan
2 years
Bright side - crypto for once behaving as it should
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
@jchervinsky every project after reading that footnote today
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
@holiday_nate @hiFramework @FactionVC @Arrington_Cap @HivemindCap Future of AI and blockchain is with @SpaceandTimeDB โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿผ
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Rika Khurdayan
2 years
This and we all should read about the SRE before opining on Signature closure
What the Fed/FDIC did just now, for dummies: 1)Every depositor (including the unsecured) gets paid in full, using bank taxes (no taxpayer $). This is cool bc unsecured depositors would prob only get 95% back otherwise, but mostly a bunch of libertarians freaked out over nothing.
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Rika Khurdayan
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@holiday_nate @SpaceandTimeDB Giant leap for blockchain and just in time as AI goes mainstream ๐Ÿ”ฅ so proud to be a part of this team!
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
Fascinated by this Compound proposal 289 blackmail couple weeks ago for many reasons. But mostly, the protocol will now distribute revenue to COMP holders. How much does it matter that this was decided by the DAO? Legal minds want to know ๐Ÿซ 
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Rika Khurdayan
2 years
Went for lunch, came back - SVB is failing, NYAG claims ETH is a security and Gensler again conflates 2 different concepts: tokenized securities that fit into the current SEC framework and digital assets that donโ€™t (even if they were part of an investment contract at some point)
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
@ohaiom I must say "any meaningful way" is an incredibly clear and straightforward legal standard
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Rika Khurdayan
2 years
Crypto exchanges are not casinos. Here is why:
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@RKhurdayan
Rika Khurdayan
6 years
@Wkskool @securitize_io @carlosdomingo @MaxDilendorf You can find a copy of the presentation here: Stay tuned for more upcoming webinars with @securitize_io team!
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Rika Khurdayan
6 years
We are very excited and grateful that the SEC of Thailand graciously provided us with the conference space to host our presentation and workshop on the structuring and launch of security tokens offerings in the US. Follow link to register.
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
@chiefbuidl ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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@RKhurdayan
Rika Khurdayan
6 years
@masturaishak1 Hahahah I definitely saw a chart ๐Ÿ™ˆ
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@RKhurdayan
Rika Khurdayan
2 months
I always remember @nntaleb 'monkeys on typewritersโ€™ when I think about track records. Even the smartest investors fall for the illusion that past performance predicts future success.
@emollick
Ethan Mollick
2 months
Even โ€œsmartโ€ investors in hedge funds fall for the same hot hand fallacy as regular investors: โ€œ[their] ability to select funds shows little sign of sophistication; they weigh information suboptimally, & their ultimate investment & divestment performance is disappointingโ€
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Rika Khurdayan
2 years
These regulatory regimes come with capital requirements, custody requirements, audit requirements, disclosure requirements, conflict of interest clearances, extensive management background and financial checks, market surveillance, monitoring and internal control requirementsโ€ฆ
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Rika Khurdayan
6 years
Looking forward to this! Join me at 1st Annual Crypto Christmas Bash in NYC with @APompliano and @BlockWorksGroup . #C
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Rika Khurdayan
2 years
@ohaiom actually laughed out loud
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Rika Khurdayan
2 years
1. In the US, a crypto spot exchange is regulated as a money transmitter in all but a handful of states, and as a virtual currency business in the state of New York under BitLicense.
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Rika Khurdayan
2 months
@holiday_nate Needless to say, this is going in my bio ๐Ÿค“
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@RKhurdayan
Rika Khurdayan
2 months
@holiday_nate @SpaceandTimeDB GM big boss ๐Ÿซก
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Rika Khurdayan
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@vishalkgupta @truex_exchange Congrats! โšก๏ธ
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Rika Khurdayan
2 years
If an exchange is offering derivatives, margin trading or investment lending products in the US, there is a slew of regulatory regimes to comply with on top of everything listed above.
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Rika Khurdayan
6 years
@ColeKennelly Why do you think so? Might be true - as long as the project can solve the usability problem and make sure that security laws will not attach every time the token is transferred within the network, and the utility exchanges start doing proper KYC/AML checks.
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@RKhurdayan
Rika Khurdayan
21 days
@holiday_nate ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿผ
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@RKhurdayan
Rika Khurdayan
2 years
@twobitidiot Closing it is the only way to pay out depositors over $250K under the SRE
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@RKhurdayan
Rika Khurdayan
6 years
Letโ€™s start tweeting with #STO basics - key things to consider when launching #securitytoken #blockchain #fintech #capital #TokenSale
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@RKhurdayan
Rika Khurdayan
2 months
@holiday_nate @SpaceandTimeDB Happy to work with the best! ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿผ
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@RKhurdayan
Rika Khurdayan
2 months
@chiefbuidl Who knew that at the top of the pyramid is a hair restoration clinic ๐Ÿ˜‚
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@RKhurdayan
Rika Khurdayan
2 years
Equating clear mismanagement, misappropriation of customers assets and fraud with good practices that are already followed by many good actors in this space is deflective. And probably offensive to highly regulated compliant casinos as well.
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@RKhurdayan
Rika Khurdayan
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Good day boss ๐Ÿซก
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@RKhurdayan
Rika Khurdayan
2 years
2. In the US, CFTC has jurisdiction to bring enforcement actions against a spot exchange for fraud and/or manipulation in the market, even if no derivatives are offered through that exchange.
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@RKhurdayan
Rika Khurdayan
2 months
@holiday_nate โ€œgmโ€ boss!
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@RKhurdayan
Rika Khurdayan
5 years
Thank you @security_token for sharing this! Looking forward to more industry events and insights
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@RKhurdayan
Rika Khurdayan
2 years
3. In the US, FinCen regulates spot exchanges as MSBs.
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