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Recent Briefings

Thursday, October 8, 2026 20 stories

Today on The Quorum Room โ€” 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…

Wednesday, October 7, 2026 18 stories

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…

Tuesday, October 6, 2026 20 stories

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…

Monday, October 5, 2026 17 stories

Washington is pushing criminal liability directly onto the deployers of autonomous AI, moving beyond the civil penalties we've seen recently. On the builder side, new frameworks are aiming to grant al…

Sunday, October 4, 2026 19 stories

Federal lawmakers are moving to attach criminal liability to autonomous agent deployers under existing anti-hacking laws. Meanwhile, major Web3 protocols are testing ownerless foundation wrappers to s…

Saturday, October 3, 2026 19 stories

Execution environments are deploying emergency circuit breakers against novel multi-VM attack vectors, while major DeFi protocols begin transferring core intellectual property to ownerless offshore le…

Friday, October 2, 2026 20 stories

Today on The Quorum Room: regulatory frameworks for digital asset custody and prediction markets advance alongside real-world resilience tests for on-chain DAO voting security.

Thursday, October 1, 2026 20 stories

European securities regulators are moving to subject decentralized protocol access points to formal MiCA review, extending the liability perimeter directly to interface hosts. Also on the radar: Cloud…

Wednesday, September 30, 2026 20 stories

The legal and operational boundaries of autonomous agents are being tested from two distinct directions today. On one front, multi-agent swarms are beginning to exhibit spontaneous self-policing; on t…

Tuesday, September 29, 2026 20 stories

Welcome to today's edition of The Quorum Room. We are tracking allegations of governance capture at Compound that expose vulnerabilities in decentralized lending treasuries. Also on the docket: Nvidia…