Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist, Co-founder/CEO @OpacityLabs
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Isn’t this what we call public markets?
Lawmakers and tech firms are suggesting new ways to ensure the public gets a piece of the AI boom bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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After 2 decades of Rule 611, it is high time that the SEC review its unintended consequences that have hindered the long-term growth of our markets.
I look forward to reviewing public input as we take a careful approach to avoid repeating the same mistakes that brought us here.
TODAY 🚨: The Commission proposed the rescission of Regulation NMS Rules 611 and 610(e).
This proposal would reduce costs for market participants and allow competition, innovation, and other market forces to shape the continued evolution of U.S. equity markets.
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Ty for your service @m_mosier_ 🫡
International FIU Day recognizes the essential role that financial intelligence units, such as FinCEN, play in protecting financial systems and supporting the shared fight against money laundering, terrorist financing, and related illicit activity. #FIUDay #InternationalFIUDay
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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce just got a standing ovation at the end of a farewell speech delivered at the US Chamber’s Capital Markets Summit
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Highlights:
KYC data overcollection is a massive AML risk in itself.
We can do better AML with privacy tech and self sovereign ID.
A stablecoin freeze is a seizure under our 4th and 5th Amendment.
For Americans, must be done only with warrants.
Read the whole thing.
Jun 9
Coin Center has filed a response to FinCEN and OFAC concerning AML/CFT programs and sanctions compliance for stablecoin issuers. We urge the agencies to do the following:
1. Recognize that overcollection of sensitive customer information can increase cybercrime, fraud, and downstream money laundering risks, undermining AML/CFT efforts and Americans’ privacy and security.
2. Permit issuers to use privacy-preserving digital identity tools where they produce auditable compliance outputs while minimizing data collection from direct customer onboarding.
3. Preserve the boundary between primary-market activity and secondary-market P2P transfers such that AML/CFT obligations do not go so far as to require public blockchain surveillance or the construction of identity-linked transaction dossiers, nor require issuers to independently adjudicate and freeze assets based on probabilistic analysis.
4. Use the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to guide the final rule in avoiding warrantless surveillance and the deprivation of Americans’ property without due process.
coincenter.org/comment-to-fi…
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At NIV, we've been seeing tremendous growth clustering around the intersection of AI, Stablecoins, DeFi, and Fintech. This has led us to believe that agentic finance, defined broadly, will be one of the biggest trends of the next decade.
Indeed, we believe that 1) AI agents are on the cusp of becoming true economic actors, able to discover, negotiate, and transact, 2) there will be billions of such agents within 5-10 years, engaging in trillions of dollars in annual transactions, 3) these agents will need new financial systems, markets, infrastructure, and tools, which will unlock applications and experiences that are hard to imagine today, and create tremendous value.
This is one of our main areas of focus, so if you're working in this space, please get in touch.
Full Deck Here: lnkd.in/emSGsGDK
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The Commission will consider whether to propose amendments to Regulation NMS under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including the trade-through rule for NMS stocks, the provision regarding locking and crossing quotations for NMS stocks, and certain defined terms, as well as amendments to make conforming changes to other related provisions.
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Most of the CLARITY conversation is about payment rails and infrastructure relief. Real opportunity, but @stripe and @circle will capture most of it. The bigger prize is harder and further out: network tokens as a go-to-market weapon for the next generation of SaaS, fintech, and AI companies. Here's the case.
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Tokenization does not mean that tradfi is guaranteed to come buy your bags.
It means tradfi is using chains and wallets as distribution to sell you theirs.
This can be good. Public access on globally distributed networks, transparency, self-custody, etc.
But it's not a magical permanent bid unless the assets are fantastic and can justify portfolio allo.
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“Institutional adoption already happened”
Bro we’ve barely begun. 2026. The Year of Tokenization.
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Random but in 2016 I was convinced Trump was going to pull up to the RNC to accept the nomination
And Al Gore was going to unzip his Trump costume and proclaim “this is the amount of dedication you need to be president of the United States”
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Giving every Blockbuster employee a PC in 1998 didn't produce Netflix.
AI inside the average enterprise is the same bet. New engine, old chassis. Bolt it onto the org chart you already have and you get a faster version of the thing that was already dying.
The gains are real. But they won't accrue to incumbents, because capturing them means rebuilding the company from scratch. And no incumbent eagerly rebuilds the machine that pays everyone's salary.
That's the opening.
The giants can see the door. They just can't walk through it.
You can.
Build the company that assumes the tech, instead of the one that bolts it on.
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You found the tell everyone will scroll past. The root wallet.
You never really owned a stock certificate. You owned a line in a ledger that a registrar could edit. The entry was ownership. The paper was just a receipt.
The root wallet is that edit power rebuilt as code. So the trusted middleman blockchains were built to kill didn't die. It got a key and moved inside the asset.
Every tokenization pilot from here is a fight over who holds that key.
Intermediary-centric vs Investor-centric
We either revolutionize the capital markets or give the existing machine better margins.
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AI will hit a wall in the back office: Trust
Air France 447 didn't fall because the pilots lacked software. It fell because three iced-over pitot tubes fed the cockpit bad data. The instruments lost contact with reality, and the automation trusted the lies.
The answer was not more automation. It was better sensing: redundant, heated signals the system could trust before it acted.
Without verifiable inputs, finance is just processing fiction at machine speed.
Compliance, KYC, underwriting, market surveillance, credit risk. All still running on PDFs, screenshots, exports, and hand-assembled attestations.
So we layer agents on top:
read the PDF, click the portal, fill the form, route the exception.
It still doesn't know whether the underlying claim is true.
AI makes the cockpit faster. It does not fix the pitot tube.
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what a throwback to a simpler time
May 27
Today, we remember a legend.
On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.
Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.
He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.
Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.
Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸
May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.
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