We’re Still Early to The Institutional Crypto Cycle | Eric Peters, CIO Coinbase Asset Management

Eric Peters, CIO of Coinbase Asset Management joins Ryan to chart how crypto matured to today’s institutional market with deep liquidity, ETF rails, and stablecoin clarity. They unpack why Wall Street is leaning in, why the next wave is digitally native issuance of treasuries, bonds, and equities on Ethereum, and how macro tailwinds (fiscal dominance, Fed–Treasury convergence, AI-driven productivity) intersect with crypto’s reflexivity. Risks and realities aren’t ignored—over-financialized “treasury companies,” security lapses, and policy whiplash—plus a 12–18 month roadmap of real on-chain use cases as pensions and sovereigns start arriving. ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi https://bankless.cc/Frax 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 5:55 Throwback to 2020 9:29 Institutional Infra: Before & After 11:47 Institutional Adoption: Before & After 15:57 TradFi ETF Incentives 19:07 Did Crypto Become Consensus? 22:45 Balancing Conviction & Change of Opinion 28:20 The Story of Money 33:19 Institutional Understanding 37:57 Is Crypto Too Big to be Shut Down? 43:44 Operation Chokepoint Takeaways 49:18 Crypto Regulation 180 56:13 Working with Different Jurisdictions 1:04:05 The Future of Tokenization 1:10:10 Crypto ETFs Aftermath 1:18:32 How High Can Crypto Go? 1:32:23 Treasury Companies 1:38:27 Eric’s Macro Trades 1:44:18 What Could Go Wrong? 1:48:04 Coinbase Asset Management 1:53:34 What’s Next? 1:54:52 Closing ------ RESOURCES Eric Peters https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesericpeters/ Coinbase Asset Management https://www.cbassetmgmt.com/ One River Asset Management https://www.oneriveram.com/ Last Eric Peters interviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8oocKy3IwU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMPiGjxdH0E Vitalik’s Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNSnYIjoqOM ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠