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Brian Armstrong On The Failed Clarity Act 0:25 Why the final Clarity Act draft was a good bill 1:43 What actually killed the Clarity Act 5:25 Is the Clarity Act dead for good? 7:42 Did the banks shoot themselves in the foot on stablecoin rewards? 9:26 What the SEC... and CFTC can do without Congress 10:51 Regulation Crypto and the problem with accredited investor rules 13:54 Can rulemaking last without legislation? 16:34 Launching through litigation, and why no bill could help Coinbase 19:12 Tokenized stocks and bringing them to the US 23:31 Building the everything exchange 27:05 Agentic finance and AI agents paying each other 29:32 AI doomerism and the history of moral panics 33:39 Has bitcoin bottomed? The $400K by 2030 case 35:27 Giving away 1 BTC to early Coinbase users in 2012show more

The Wolf Of All Streets

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SassMate5 days ago

"This was about politics" relative to what killed the bill. I mean, if you want to call folks being concerned that the POTUS has already rugged people twice on two meme coins, and who has shown a clear disregard for the emoluments clause his entire second term and the fact that the UAE bought $100M of WLFI and Quatar owns nearly half of WLFI which reeks of quid pro quo at best, OK.

Rand Group5 days ago

Politicians voting for an Act that they know nothing about.

Jacqro.hy5 days ago

The gap between rulemaking and actual law is the key point here.

Gasper Stih5 days ago

the bill is one thing. who gets the first compliant product live is the real race

Knight 🐜5 days ago

Appreciate the Clarity Act breakdown. Builders need clearer rails more than another cycle of guessing. The agentic finance bit at the end is especially interesting for where crypto and AI actually meet.

Anslem5 days ago

Thanks for this masterpiece

XWhisper5 days ago

Worth reading twice.

Rihan Tarin5 days ago

Today's outcome gave me a very real burst of confidence. I'm still having little bursts of excitement about it.

vøv △5 days ago

banks tanking stability with rewards, whats your take?

David Arnal5 days ago

The interesting bottleneck may be distribution, not tokenization: if accredited-investor rules remain the gatekeeper, putting stocks onchain changes the rail without changing who can access the market.

Defi_Noal5 days ago

The 2012 giveaway aged better than any bill

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