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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Wrapper: The Senate's CLARITY Act hits a fatal procedural wall, leaving protocol developers to navigate a strict agency-rulemaking environment. Plus, new timelines emerge for Balancer's h…
A finalized 635-page draft of the CLARITY Act has arrived ahead of today's Senate cloture vote. On the decentralized front, established protocols are testing new maturity milestones, from Balancer's p…
With the Senate's CLARITY Act facing a critical procedural vote, sponsors have released a 635-page compromise draft that grants state attorneys general the authority to enforce executive crypto ethics…
The final text of the CLARITY Act heading to a Senate vote imposes a strict 20% token control threshold for protocol operators seeking to avoid traditional financial registration. We also cover the Et…
Standardized corporate legal stacks are lowering the barrier to token issuance, led by the formal launch of the Charter Foundation. We also unpack a high-stakes lawsuit targeting validator neutrality,…
Senate Republicans have drawn a strict new statutory line for DeFi protocols in a revised draft of the CLARITY Act, just days ahead of a critical procedural vote. We are also tracking a major interope…
The institutional plumbing of crypto is taking a decisive leap into standardized legal entity design and autonomous machine payments. We begin with a new legal framework from Ink Foundation and GSR ai…
Today on The Wrapper: Aave has officially bridged decentralized finance with autonomous software by releasing a native Model Context Protocol server. We are also examining a massive 37-bank European c…
An underlying verification bug on the Liquid Network sidechain has triggered a $320 million exploit, proving that hardware multi-sig setups offer little protection when the base code fails. Today's ed…
With federal market structure legislation stalled in the Senate, the focus shifts inward to the protocols themselves. Today's edition tracks major DAOs deploying off-chain governance bans to enforce g…