Salman Banaei

Salman Banaei is General Counsel at Plume, the RWA-focused blockchain, where he leads legal, policy, and compliance strategy for tokenized real-world assets. He has an unusual career spanning both sides of financial regulation: he served at the CFTC from 2009 to 2012 working on Dodd-Frank derivatives reform, and returned to government in 2024 as a Senior Special Counsel at the SEC covering exchanges, ATSs, and digital assets. In the private sector he was Head of Policy at Uniswap Labs, co-head of public policy at Chainalysis, and Head of Blockchain at IHS Markit (now S&P Global). He has testified before Congress on tokenization and is a frequent voice on US crypto market structure legislation.

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