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Recent Briefings
Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: SEC Chair Atkins opens a rulemaking lane for onchain trading and crypto vaults, the LayerZero exodus widens to Solv and Re, AUSTRAC moves from rulemaking to active supervis…
Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: AWS, Lightning Labs, and Trust Wallet all ship agent-payment infrastructure the same day NIST opens its first AI agent governance comment periods. Plus: Aave overhauls coll…
Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: terrorism creditors file a new 'credit fraud, not theft' theory that could let them seize $71M meant for Kelp exploit victims, Uniswap's delegation recall closes today, Dec…
Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: Aave's emergency motion to vacate the $71M ETH freeze advances into federal court as the May 7 Arbitrum vote and a newly elected Security Council converge on the same froze…
Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: Aave moves to vacate the Kelp ETH freeze, Gensler concedes Howey is broken, an AI agent legally incorporated itself as a U.S. LLC, and the Korean exchange alliance warns pr…
Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: a U.S. court tries to treat Arbitrum DAO as a partnership, Five Eyes issues its first joint guidance on agentic AI, and the OCC's stablecoin yield rules start hitting DeFi …
Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: a U.S. law firm tries to lay claim to Arbitrum's frozen $71M before victims can recover it, the CLARITY Act clears its stablecoin-yield deadlock, MiCA decoded for complianc…
Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: Sky Protocol's shift from voting to rule-based treasury constraints, a wave of agent payment cards from Stripe/MoonPay/Oobit, and April's record-breaking incident count ref…
Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: agent-payment standards harden into production infrastructure, three jurisdictions ship operationally meaningful crypto rules in a single day, and a Delaware court reads a …
Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: Kelp recovery hits $303M as DeFi United closes the rsETH gap, the FCA sharpens its cryptoasset perimeter ahead of the September gateway, and the architectural debate over A…