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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Traditional finance is finally wiring itself for the agentic economy. Stripe and Cross River Bank are launching dedicated card issuance for AI agents, effectively bridging fiat rails to the autonomous…
Wyoming is officially minting its own currency. The famously crypto-forward state just launched the first state-issued stablecoin in the US, opening a new front in the battle over jurisdictional contr…
Today on The Wrapper: a New York court will decide if billions in early, inactive Bitcoin can be legally seized as 'abandoned property,' setting up a massive clash over the nature of cryptographic own…
Today on The Wrapper: The EU's comprehensive MiCA framework is now fully in force, establishing a hard legal divide between licensed and unlicensed operators. In parallel, the infrastructure for auton…
While Washington processes the aftershocks of the Supreme Court stripping independence from the SEC and CFTC, traditional finance is making a structural play for the stablecoin market. A coalition of …
A landmark Supreme Court ruling just gave the U.S. President at-will power to fire the heads of the SEC and CFTC, injecting a new layer of political volatility into the regulatory landscape just as th…
The theoretical debate over AI personhood we've been tracking has collided with hard law. As Argentina advances its bill to create 'non-human corporations,' nine U.S. states are moving in the opposite…
At GnosisDAO, token holders just voted to let themselves redeem GNO for a pro-rata share of the treasury's $223 million in liquid assets, introducing an activist playbook to decentralized governance. …
Asset managers are steadily deploying the The Wrapper plumbing required for regulated finance, even as lawmakers struggle to define the legal boundaries of autonomous agents and open-source developers…
The legal guardrails for an AI-driven economy are starting to ship. With the American Arbitration Association formalizing a dispute resolution layer for autonomous commerce, and multiple firms rolling…