Cuban: Retail private markets require platforms to act as market makers
Mark Cuban · Mark Cuban on AI, Career Advice, and Running for President. · Aug 21, 2025 · at 25:39
Mark Cuban outlines what market structure changes are required for retail private market access to protect everyday investors.
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“Is there a way, whether it's tokenization or other approaches to that? Probably, but it's going to have to go back to the future where somebody is going to have to take some risk and be a market maker. Yeah. If Vlad or whoever is a market maker so that there's always some liquidity within x percentage of the last trade, great. Then everybody can do it and everybody's protected to a certain extent as long as they're not doing deals where the people are just, Out and out lying, right, or misrepresenting it, at which point hopefully the CFTC or the SEC, whoever happens to end up in charge.”
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