{"id":32138,"date":"2025-06-16T20:01:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T20:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=32138"},"modified":"2025-06-16T20:01:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T20:01:37","slug":"coinfund-president-on-ai-tokens-depin-and-why-clear-rules-will-unleash-next-wave-of-crypto-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=32138","title":{"rendered":"Coinfund President On AI Tokens, DePIN, And Why Clear Rules Will Unleash Next Wave Of Crypto Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Christopher Perkins<\/strong>, President of <strong>CoinFund <\/strong>and a former Wall Street executive, believes the next chapter of crypto adoption hinges on clarity\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/02\/44063764\/cryptos-trump-era-honeymoon-fades-as-regulatory-reality-sets-in\">regulatory, technological, and strategic. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Benzinga, Perkins discussed everything from AI-powered networks to staking yields, tokenized fund structures, and Washington&#8217;s evolving stance on digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of Perkins\u2019 long-term thesis is a commitment to fundamentals over hype. <\/p>\n<p>When asked about the investability of AI-token and DePIN projects, he was blunt: &#8220;We don&#8217;t like to invest on narrative. We like to invest on fundamentals.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>CoinFund has made numerous bets in the space. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s all about utility. It\u2019s all about understanding the value that is derived from that utility,&#8221; he said, pointing to examples like autonomous lawn robots powered by hyper-precise location data from DePIN networks.<\/p>\n<p>Perkins is no stranger to regulatory entanglements. <\/p>\n<p>A former managing director at Citi during the Dodd-Frank era, he learned early on that &#8220;you can&#8217;t win the game if you don&#8217;t know the rules.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Today, he sees the absence of a clear taxonomy, particularly around what constitutes a security versus a commodity, as the biggest hurdle to U.S. innovation. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we&#8217;re confronted with right now\u2026 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/25\/06\/45960131\/coinfund-president-on-ai-tokens-depin-and-why-clear-rules-will-unleash-next-wave-of-crypto-adoption\" alt=\"Coinfund\" president on ai tokens depin and why clear rules will unleash next wave of crypto adoption>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Perkins, President of CoinFund and a former Wall Street executive, believes the next chapter of crypto adoption hinges on clarity\u2014regulatory, technological, and strategic. In an interview with Benzinga, Perkins discussed everything from AI-powered networks to staking yields, tokenized fund structures, and Washington&#8217;s evolving stance on digital assets. At the heart of Perkins\u2019 long-term thesis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-32138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}