Christopher Perkins

Chris Perkins is a crypto investment executive and a co-host of Bits + Bips on the Unchained network. He served as president and managing partner of CoinFund, one of the oldest crypto-native investment firms, then led its spinout 250 Digital, which Franklin Templeton agreed to acquire in April 2026 to form its new Franklin Crypto division. Before crypto, he was global co-head of futures, clearing, and FX prime brokerage at Citi and earlier US head of derivatives intermediation at Lehman Brothers. An Iraq War veteran who served nine years in the US Marine Corps, he is co-inventor of the Composite Ether Staking Rate (CESR), the crypto industry's first interest rate benchmark of its kind, and has served on the CFTC's Global Markets Advisory Committee and testified before Congress on crypto market structure.

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