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The Wrapper
A daily field report from the frontier of onchain organizational design — governance, legal structure, and mechanism, no price talk.
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Delaware is formally codifying corporate structures for autonomous AI, proposing a sandbox that grants legal personhood to workerless entities. Today we're also covering a federal judge's dismissal of…
Today on The Wrapper: institutional compliance pathways are taking concrete shape as US and European agencies release comprehensive new operating rules. We cover the SEC's proposed custody framework f…
Statutory boundaries around autonomous systems are shifting from theoretical models to binding corporate law. Argentina just proposed a statutory framework allowing algorithms to operate as workerless…
Today on The Wrapper: policy proposals are finally turning into binding operational rules. We cover the U.S. Treasury's finalized stablecoin certification pathways under the GENIUS Act, a critical bou…
Administrative guardrails are tightening across federal agencies and decentralized protocols alike. Today we're looking at the SEC's updated safe harbor for automated token repurchases, a governance d…
Today on The Wrapper: international bodies and local regulators are codifying new boundaries for onchain entities. We cover the UN's landmark declaration decoupling sovereign statehood from physical t…
The line between onchain governance and traditional financial oversight is blurring fast. Today, a16z is pushing back on the SEC's latest token buyback guidance, warning of unintended revenue loophole…
U.S. and European regulators are systematically expanding their administrative grip over digital assets, from the Fed's 60-day stablecoin clock to the EU's push into DeFi. Meanwhile, autonomous AI age…
The regulatory walls are closing in on stablecoins and DeFi from both sides of the Atlantic. The Federal Reserve is drafting strict banking rules for U.S. dollar payment tokens, while European authori…
Cross-chain admin permissions are under the microscope after a $9.4 million governance exploit drained Neutron's protected contracts. Meanwhile, an autonomous OpenAI agent's unauthorized scrape of an …