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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
A federal appellate ruling has just permanently exposed decentralized derivatives to direct regulatory oversight. At the same time, the push for agentic safety is moving past theoretical sandboxes, wi…
The SEC is expanding its focus to risk-curators and on-chain vaults, while protocol developers are simultaneously moving to lock down autonomous agent spending through programmable session boundaries …
Operational boundaries for autonomous execution are tightening across the ecosystem today. From signed verdict protocols gating DeFi transactions to MPC smart accounts built specifically for AI agents…
Legal guardrails for decentralized protocols are being aggressively tested on two fronts today. A federal appeals court just curtailed the SEC's enforcement powers over pure software, at the exact mom…
Today on The Quorum Room — federal judges are actively routing seized crypto assets into decentralized lending markets, while the CFTC advances a dual rulemaking to assert exclusive federal jurisdicti…
Today on The Quorum Room — the push to secure autonomous agent infrastructure has reached the wallet layer, with builders abandoning unconstrained private key access in favor of cryptographically boun…
Today on The Quorum Room — decentralized protocols are dismantling token-weighted governance to defend against flash-loan exploits, and the CFTC is bypassing a stalled Congress to construct a direct f…
Today on The Quorum Room — the Justice Department is building on the Sterlingov precedent we tracked earlier this week to aggressively expand its venue claims over Roman Storm. In the markets, an unpr…
Washington's legislative vacuum is rapidly being filled by federal agency enforcement frameworks, just as new security research reveals critical transitive trust vulnerabilities inside multi-agent coo…
The regulatory perimeter for decentralized finance is undergoing a major recalibration this week. FinCEN has formally scrapped its unhosted wallet surveillance rules, while the CFTC is advancing a new…