Timely speech from @HesterPeirce given to @SIFMA today: "Today society is at a crossroads. Down one path lies the status quo: more data collection, more intermediary surveillance, more “know your customer” requirements that turn our financial rails into a panopticon. Down the other path lies an opportunity to use new technologies to improve our ability to catch criminals while collecting less personal information than ever before, and monitoring more sparingly to protect Americans’ privacy."

Our latest research paper explores the growing connection between AI and digital assets and explains why broad AI adoption may drive new demand, utility and applications across the digital asset economy. blackrock.com/us/individual/…

In July, SEC Commissioner Peirce invited innovators and entrepreneurs bringing asset management onchain through vault protocols to help write new rules and guidance for vault protocols. As the developer of the Nest protocol powering Plume Vaults, we took the opportunity to provide advice to the Commission as it considers policymaking regarding onchain vaults. We believe vaults will play a critical role in open finance, and the SEC can unlock a new era of onchain capital formation with the right regulatory architecture. We thank the SEC for the opportunity to provide input at our meeting on September 22. Our submission is linked here: sec.gov/files/ctf-written-in…

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🥳 Excited to start revealing what we've been working on in the last few months. First, we decided to reinvent Kubernetes for agentic workloads with statefulness and fast resumption. Secondly, we are building an agentic orchestrator that will be Google's open agentic orchestrator and runtime. github.com/google/ax

NEWS: The FAA has restricted airspace around SpaceX’s McGregor test site near Waco, Texas, ahead of Tesla’s October 1 Roadster reveal. The no-fly zone reaches about 10,000 feet and runs through October 2.

This means "providing one or more AMM Liquidity Pools" for synthetic US equity tokens accessible to US persons through CUIs may carry considerable regulatory and securities litigation risk. 7/n

🚨 TODAY: The SEC issued an order granting temporary, conditional exemptive relief to Tokenized Securities Venues from the definition of “exchange” in the Exchange Act to trade tokenized NMS stock using innovative permissioned automated market makers and liquidity pools.

Big news: S&P Global has entered an agreement to acquire OpenZeppelin. We started in 2015 with the vision of a secure, open financial system powered by blockchains and smart contracts. Ten years and $37 trillion in value transferred later, the standards and rails our team and community built carry major DeFi protocols and blockchain networks as well as the largest stablecoins and tokenized funds. With @spglobal, those standards and rails can now reach the benchmarks, risk frameworks, and institutional reach global markets already run on. Proud of the @OpenZeppelin team, everything we’ve accomplished, and everything we’ll continue to build together! openzeppelin.com/news/spglob…

🚨 TODAY: The SEC issued an order granting temporary, conditional exemptive relief to Tokenized Securities Venues from the definition of “exchange” in the Exchange Act to trade tokenized NMS stock using innovative permissioned automated market makers and liquidity pools.

Not invoked, 49-50: Motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to Cal. #423, H.R.3633, Clarity Act.