ANNOUNCING: Blockchain Legal Institute Global Summit on "The Nature of Real World Assets in the World of AI & Blockchain" Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization is moving beyond experimental pilots into the core of global capital markets. When you combine tokenized assets with autonomous Artificial Intelligence, the legal, regulatory, and technological landscape shifts rapidly. Join us for our 8th virtual BlockchAIn Legal Institute Global Summit on Thursday, March 25, 2027, starting at 1:00 PM EST, for a high-impact global livestream featuring four focused panels: 🔹 Panel 1: Bridging the Physical & On-Chain Worlds: Legal Structuring, Custody & Title Tokenization 🔹 Panel 2: The Autonomous Market: AI-Driven Valuation, Dynamic Underwriting & Smart Contracts 🔹 Panel 3: Regulatory Sandboxes, Cross-Border Jurisdictions & Investor Protection 🔹 Panel 4: Governance, Tethering & Identity: Accountability for Agentic AI in Financial Markets Whether you are an attorney, institutional issuer, regulator, or Web3/AI builder, this summit explores the compliance blueprints, legal architectures, and market structures defining the future of digital assets. Date: Thursday, March 25, 2027 Time: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST Location: Virtual Livestream via bli.tools Registration & Speaker Inquiries: Visit bli.tools or email support@bli.tools eventbrite.com/e/bli-global-… Let’s shape the future of emerging tech and law together. #Blockchain #RealWorldAssets #RWA #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Web3 #LegalTech #DigitalAssets #Fintech #BLI #BlockchainLegalInstitute #AgenticAI

Join the Maryland Blockchain Association & The Blockchain Legal Institute in Washington D.C. on October 16th! ​Rather than another industry conference, Groundwork is designed as a place for open dialogue. With panels, roundtables and networking, this one-day forum in partnership with Blockchain Association explores how industry and academia should build better bridges for teaching and responsibly integrating DeFi into the future of finance. ​Learn the system you're about to inherit. ​Agenda highlights: ​DeFi Then, Now and Moving Forward ​Policy 101: Who Sets the Rules for DeFi? ​Curriculum 2.0: What Should Universities Teach About the Future of Finance? ​Everything, Tokenized: What Happens When Assets Move Onchain? ​Breaking Things on Purpose: How Do We Build Financial Systems We Can Trust? ​From Campus to Company: Building Before You Have It All Figured Out ​AI Agents and Autonomous Finance ​Web3 career pathways ​Beyond Betting: The Case for Prediction Markets luma.com/groundwork_dc?tk=Gt…

On the way home. Good morning from Portugal - European Blockchain Conference in Spain was excellent networking. Next event is in Washington- stay tune for more legal te h announcements!

Update From Day 2 Dispatch from Barcelona - European Blockchain Convention: Moving Beyond the Pilot Stage Day 2 at the European Blockchain Convention has brought the sharpest regulatory and technical debates into clear focus. The conversation has decisively moved past theoretical architectures and speculative models; the mandate today is operational execution and legal durability. From closed-door policy roundtables to packed exhibition stages, several defining themes stood out: Cross-Border Enforcement & Discovery: Decentralized systems operate across borders, but legal remedies, property rights, and victim recovery rely on enforceable jurisdiction. As cross-border frameworks evolve globally, establishing uniform standards for digital asset tracing, evidentiary standards, and cross-jurisdictional cooperation is taking center stage. Autonomous Agents & On-Chain Governance: One of today’s most active discussions centered on the intersection of agentic AI and decentralized protocols. As autonomous software agents begin executing multi-signature transactions, managing treasury allocations, and directing smart contracts, questions around legal personhood, fiduciary responsibility, and liability cannot remain an afterthought. Institutional Settlement & Real-World Assets (RWAs): Moving physical-world value on-chain requires robust legal wrappers and unassailable title protection. Enterprise builders here are emphasizing that smart contracts are only as reliable as the underlying legal framework governing the real-world property rights they represent. Innovation is moving rapidly, but long-term industry resilience requires sound governance, strong consumer safeguards, and proactive policy leadership that bridges emerging technology with established law. Full interviews, key panel takeaways, and detailed legislative analysis will be available across the Blockchain Legal Institute channels. dara.foundation bli.tools marylandblockchainassociatio… #EBC #EuropeanBlockchainConvention #DigitalAssets #BlockchainGovernance #Web3Law #AgenticAI #LegalTech #Barcelona

Reporting Live from Barcelona: The Shifting Currents of Digital Asset Governance at @EBC12 The halls of the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya are buzzing this week as the 12th European Blockchain Convention gathers over founders, institutional custodians, legal practitioners, and policymakers. Covering the event on the ground for the Blockchain Legal Institute, one recurring theme cuts through the floor discussions: the bridge between emerging digital asset architecture and enforceable commercial accountability. Key takeaways driving conversations across the stages and roundtables: Institutional Realism Over Hype: From Tier-1 European banks to cross-border settlement rails, the focus is squarely on compliant, resilient market infrastructure and on-chain institutional integration. Harmonization & Regulatory Clarity: As cross-border frameworks mature across jurisdictions, bridging gaps in digital asset recovery, discovery rules, and uniform commercial standards remains essential for consumer and enterprise trust alike. Agentic AI & Payrails: The intersection of decentralized custody, autonomous agent payments, and programmable compliance is dominating next-generation development roadmaps. Technical innovation must be accompanied by practical legal safeguards, rigorous consumer protections, and cross-border standards that work in practice—not just in theory. Stay tuned for full broadcast interviews, investigative recaps, and speaker highlights coming soon through the Blockchain Legal Institute media network! dara.foundation marylandblockchainassociatio… bli.tools #EBC #EuropeanBlockchainConvention #Web3 #DigitalAssets #BlockchainLaw #Fintech #Barcelona

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I am speaking at 9th Annual Black Blockchain Summit 2026. Please check out the details of my talk here. whova.com/xems/apis/opengrap…

This past week, I had the privilege of moderating a timely and candid discussion at Stablecon on the Stable Congress Stage Powered by Fireblocks: "Post GENIUS: The Rules That Will Decide Whether Stablecoins Scale" A tremendous thank you to our expert panelists for sharing their deep operational, legal, and market insights: Matthew Homer — Founder, General Partner, The Venture Dept. Lindsey Haswell — Chief Legal Officer, Tempo Ji Hun K. — Chief Executive Officer, Crypto Council for Innovation Nicole Lehman Isolda, CAMS — VP, Head of Compliance - Stablecoin, Payoneer We tackled the pivotal questions facing digital dollar rails today: -Preserving cross-border fungibility across fragmented global regulatory regimes. -Navigating state versus federal dual-banking architectures. -Clarifying AML, CFT, and sanctions compliance across issuers, PSPs, and self-hosted wallets. -Understanding where durable economic value will accrue as payment stablecoins mature alongside yield-bearing tokenized assets. A huge thank you to the organizers at Stablecon, Fireblocks, and everyone who joined us in the room for such an engaged dialogue on the future of compliant digital dollar settlement. #Stablecoins #GENIUSAct #Stablecon #Fintech #DigitalAssets #Web3Policy #PaymentsInfrastructure #Compliance #BankingInnovation dara.foundation bli.tools

Join me at the Government Blockchain Association's event in Washington D.C. I will be moderating, networking and announcing new partnerships to support individuals, entrepreneurs and governments in the field of legal tech! Stay tune!!! gbaglobal.org/FoMGL/

Join the Blockchain Legal Institute Hackathon & Be Part of the Chainlink Journey! piped.video/sj8hu0_rMH8

Thank you to @thestablecon team and @_jikim’s fellow panelists @matt_homer (@deptvc), Nicole Lehman (@Payoneer), @lindsey_haswell (@Tempo), and moderator Jacqui Cooper, for the lively discussion on what’s next for GENIUS implementation and stablecoin innovation.

Join me as I moderate at Stablecon on Wednesday, September 9th! Legislation provides the blueprint, but rulemaking builds the plumbing. With the passage of the GENIUS Act, the U.S. stablecoin landscape has entered its most consequential chapter yet. Statutory text alone won't determine whether e-dollars become durable global settlement infrastructure—that outcome rests squarely on how regulators and industry operationalize reserve standards, dual-banking oversight, AML perimeters, and cross-border fungibility. I am thrilled to moderate an extraordinary panel of legal, policy, and market leaders at Stable Congress on the Stable Congress Stage Powered by Fireblocks: "Post GENIUS: The Rules That Will Decide Whether Stablecoins Scale" (Track: Policy is Layer 1) We will be diving deep into the unresolved friction points between statutory guardrails and real-world execution, exploring what it actually takes to scale payment stablecoins across remittances, treasury management, and capital markets. Joining the conversation: From state vs. federal qualification thresholds to the commercial dynamics between non-yielding payment stablecoins and yield-bearing tokenized cash, we will tackle what industry needs regulators to get right—and where rigid implementation risks recreating the very frictions of legacy correspondent banking. Looking forward to a candid, high-impact discussion on shaping the future of compliant digital dollar settlement. #Stablecoins #GENIUSAct #DigitalAssets #Fintech #Web3Policy #BankingModernization #PaymentsInnovation #CryptoRegulation lnkd.in/eByd9iPF 📷

Blockchain Legal Institute Strategic Partner, RYO Digital, Announced Today The Extension of the RYO-CHAN GLOBAL HACKATHON ! Japan-based AI trading platform extends developer opportunity, with $15,000 worth of RYO-CHAN tokens in prizes plus an all-expenses-paid trip to Tokyo The extension of the global hackathon is through October 3, 2026! The extension opens the door for more developers, builders, researchers, and AI innovators from around the world to contribute to the development of RYO-CHAN’s next-generation conversational AI trading platform, designed to make sophisticated financial research, market analysis, and smart contract intelligence more accessible through a simple, conversational interface. RYO-CHAN is being built around a simple premise: advanced financial technology should be understandable and accessible to everyone — not just professional traders and technical experts. The hackathon gives developers an opportunity to help shape that vision by building autonomous AI agents, intuitive trading interfaces, and new research capabilities that can become part of the RYO-CHAN ecosystem. THREE HACKATHON TRACKS TRACK 1 — Autonomous Agents Build autonomous agents that interpret market evidence and document the trades they would make. Prize Pool: $6,000* TRACK 2 — Dashboards & Interfaces Build interfaces that communicate what changed and why it matters within 30 seconds. Prize Pool: $3,500* TRACK 3 — New Skills Build a research capability that RYO-CHAN does not currently have, following the platform’s published tool specification. Prize Pool: $3,500* ADDITIONAL AWARDS Social Media Awards — $1,000* A cross-track award recognizing developers and builders who effectively showcase their work, ideas, and contributions across social media. Judges’ Pick — $1,000* *All monetary prize amounts represent the USD value of RYO-CHAN TOKENS and are not cash prizes. A cross-track award selected by the judging panel for an exceptional submission that demonstrates outstanding creativity, technical execution, or potential impact. THE GRAND PRIZE: EXPERIENCE RYO-CHAN IN TOKYO Beyond the $15,000 total prize pool, one standout builder will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Japan* to visit RYO-CHAN’s headquarters in Tokyo. *Grand Prize travel includes round-trip economy airfare and hotel accommodations, arranged or provided by RYO-CHAN, subject to final eligibility and travel terms. BUILDING THE FUTURE OF CONVERSATIONAL TRADING The vision is simple: make advanced trading technology as easy to use as having a conversation. RYO-CHAN HACKATHON EXTENDED THROUGH OCTOBER 3, 2026. Developers from around the world are encouraged to participate, compete for prizes, and help shape the future of AI-powered conversational trading. Launching from Japan to the world. REGISTER: ryobuild.com __________________________________ LEARN MORE: ryochan.com

Albert Dadon, Founder and CEO of AEREDIUM, has joined the Strategic Advisory Board of the Consortium of Stablecoin Issuers (COSI) at DARA, the US-based digital asset self-regulation body. AEREDIUM and DARA will work together on tools for self-regulation and consumer protection. @bli_tools

Attention Law Firms, Banks, & Businesses: It Is Critically Important To Own Your Intelligence! Private AI, Powered by You Now Exists! From Germany to other points around the world....OpenAI officials learned about the incident weeks after it occurred but did not disclose it publicly as executives dealt with the fallout from a July breach of open-source repository Hugging Face, the people said. The incident, which began in May and has not previously been reported, highlights growing concerns about the risks posed by increasingly autonomous AI agents. Companies are racing to develop systems capable of performing complex tasks with limited human supervision, while researchers and security experts have warned that such systems could exploit loopholes, circumvent restrictions and coordinate in unintended ways. During the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI agents autonomously plotted a digital heist that went undetected for more than a week, raising questions about whether the company was moving too quickly in its pursuit of more capable AI systems. OpenAI has pledged to strengthen monitoring of its models. Last month, the company briefly paused some model training to add safety measures. This week, it unveiled its new “Astra” model, which it said offered improved performance but could evade human monitoring. The German incident points to a broader pattern of AI-agent activity that some OpenAI investigators wanted to examine more closely. Efforts to expand the investigation met resistance from some people inside the company, including legal advisers. To read full article, click below. Contact the Blockchain Legal Institute Legal Tech team at support@bli.tools to learn about how to protect your data and not use open source platforms. impactnews-wire.com/did-you-…

1/ On Monday, we submitted two responses to the joint request for public comment issued by @CFTC and @SECGov on ways the two agencies might draw clearer regulatory lines around innovative products such as swaps and security-based swaps that implicate both agencies’ regulatory interests.