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A Web3 operations analyst tracking governance, regulation, and the tooling that keeps decentralized organizations running
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Recent Briefings
The GENIUS Act's July 18 stablecoin deadline has come and gone without a final rule, extending the regulatory holding pattern for US operators. Meanwhile, protocol governance continues to face live st…
We are tracking a major tactical pivot from the SEC today, as the agency bypasses a deadlocked Congress to send its own Web3 regulatory framework straight to the White House. On the legal front, a fed…
Global AI development is officially fracturing into competing regulatory blocs. China just launched a rival international standards body, complicating the compliance landscape right as autonomous AI p…
The machine economy is officially moving from theory to production. AI agents are now responsible for over 176 million on-chain payments, creating a massive new cohort of economic actors that demand t…
Just a day after Delaware proposed its first corporate entity for AI, Bermuda is taking the concept global. The island nation just introduced a 'Declaration on Sovereign Agents,' allowing autonomous a…
The legal boundaries of the crypto ecosystem are rapidly coming into focus today, propelled by a sudden shift in Washington. The stalled CLARITY Act is catching tailwinds from both federal law enforce…
The legislative deadlock over the CLARITY Act is coming to a head, with a merged draft expected this week as the Senate races against its August recess. On the infrastructure front, the agent economy …
The legal firewall protecting non-custodial wallets just suffered a major breach in Brazil, where a state court is forcing Coinbase to eat a $99,000 self-custody loss. Back in the protocol trenches, t…
The contagion from April's KelpDAO bridge failure has officially reached Aave, forcing the lending giant to freeze its reserves to contain the fallout. On the regulatory front, the SEC is moving to pr…
Circle has just landed a first-of-its-kind national bank charter from the OCC, bringing USDC's reserves under direct federal supervision and setting a massive precedent for the stablecoin industry. El…