In consensus 2025, Kevin O’Leary, chairman of O’ley Ventures, opened for why encryption was trapped in Limbo. He explained that if there is no clear rules, huge players, such as pension funds and sovereignty funds, are sitting in a side job and investing seriously in digital assets.
Kevin also shared his experience with the US SEC by recalling how it fitted to the Wells notice to discuss debt tokenization. This dropped him away from the SEC for a while.
But with the exit of Gensler, the SEC has now turned 180 degrees and dropped many encryption cases that started in Gensler.
Kevin requires clear regulations
He shared that clear regulations were important at any time. This feeling has been changed to the appointment of a new SEC chair, Paul Atkins, and “New Sheriff in Town” has already shown a more encrypted approach. This makes it easier to write more support for encryption spaces.
O’Leary said, “I didn’t say this, but I want more regulation and I want it now.”
Kevin also believes that digital payments will increase as the US Stablecoin law will eventually pass. This will begin waves of the next crypto regulations, including the Market Infrastructure Act. When the correct regulations are prepared, large corporate investors finally enter the encryption market and enter large amounts of capital, especially Bitcoin.
Kevin is a big shareholder of HBAR
What attracted viewers’ interest is that Kevin said he was a big shareholder of HBAR. He is also optimistic and more diversified for projects such as ETH and Avalanche. If the token is designated as a securities or a product, the influx of capital is expected to flow into the top five tokens.
He also revealed that his investment and actual use cases of various encryptions, including HEDERA, Solana and Polygon, were mixed with other technologies.
KEVIN said that with the end of it, encryption would be the core part of the economy by making the border payments easier and cheaper in five years.