Law & Policy

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

/opacity

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/eulerlagrange

Policy usually adapts to best efforts of best market actors.

The Farcaster formerly known as Kchamp. Books, beats, bodybuilding, bright ideas and beautiful things.

katherinechampagne.com

Congress is responsible for it not SEC. FinCEN through dept of the treasury implements and enforces.

Bank Secrecy Act should narrow its reach to protect privacy in the crypto age. Initially intended to combat organized crime, it expanded to include nearly every suspicious transaction (called SAR). 

As finance and trade come onchain, policymakers need to recognise that low-value information from financial data overwhelms law enforcement and erodes people’s privacy.

Bank Secrecy Act should narrow its reach to protect privacy in the crypto age. Initially intended to combat organized crime, it expanded to include nearly every suspicious transaction (called SAR). 

As finance and trade come onchain, policymakers need to recognise that low-value information from financial data overwhelms law enforcement and erodes people’s privacy.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/25/1119324/katie-haun-bank-secrecy-act-oped/

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

I tend to agree. What do you think current distributed ledgers lack? Or rather, how do you think about what’s needed but missing?

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thatalexpalmer

Two use cases in crypto with product-market fit: speculation and stablecoins.

Today, if you don't play in the speculation stack, you miss out of the $$$ spent by the relatively small population of hardcore crypto users (and occasionally a sudden surge of retail interest when there's a big meme event). This space is attractive for startups since a relatively small number of users by consumer standards can generate a lot of revenue.

Stablecoins grew out of the speculation stack over the last decade, but now with the GENIUS Act, you're going to see a flood of non-crypto companies with existing distribution start to play around with crypto. This space is much harder for startups since stablecoins require massive scale to be a good business (and will become worse if interest rates fall).

The challenge today is that if you're somewhere in-between speculation and stablecoins, the thing you need to make your business successful is users who spend some amount of crypto. And that market is not that big yet.

So the imperative is to grow size of the market. The best way to do that is build fun and entertaining apps and experiences.

This is what we're focused on with the Farcaster app and why I'm constantly telling people other stuff isn't a priority relative to user growth.

Helping build @midao. Probably on the water if I’m not thinking about crypto. /eagles /betting /off-grid

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nest

Creating the best legal & regulatory frameworks in the world for digital organizations and digital assets

@midao is sick. /nest uses it in RMI as its domicile and we doubled total (global) number of /rwa holders

Food

it’s for love it’s not for money it doesn’t scale and it shouldn’t

Wait it’s simple… soft boiled egg (5.5 mins on boil)-> extract with something like a syringe (marinade injector will do)-> inject broth with another syringe -> wrap with nori seaweed to seal

Garnish with scallion. 👀

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

$10 is a bit low but yes. I would set real “maybe not bot” threshold to something hidden and probabilistic.

Over centuries, trade was done on stone tablets, then paper, then computers, then computers that are online. Now trade is onchain.

Blockchains aren’t databases, they’re programs with self-executing code, and payments that are built in to the value exchange layer.

Why tokenized

Modern markets have scaled concentrically from local marketplaces, eg NYSE famously started under a buttonwood tree.  Crypto is the first financial architecture that uses dematerialized computer networks that are global in scale by default.

Salman Banaei

Productizing RWAfi @plumenetwork. Letting you earn from all RWAs on Plume using https://nest.credit. Hosting /rwa, /plume, /nest and https://palmer.earth

p.s. i like our GC Salman a lot

https://x.com/banamlas/status/1936927901774958695?s=46

at trust wallet via sequence. pimlico. poap. polygon. metamask. paxful. flipside crypto. dash. bridgewater. darpa. secdef. navy. dia. linktr.ee/alexanderchopan

y u no tag ppl

p.s. i do like your specific flavor of cryptic haiku

Degen

VCs maximize LP returns and founders maximize shareholder value of corporations?

I use all the products we build @plumenetwork - this is true for all vaults on @NestCredit that are currently live, and upcoming!

I run my IRL family office, and apply some of the same thinking for Nest's vault strategies. Which RWAs should be included, how to design for highest https://t.co/Dy5fTJHm1Z

Alex Palmer

I use products I create.

https://x.com/thatalexpalmer/status/1936485788927045895?s=46