Policy briefings
Substantive briefings and reports on digital assets, financial technology, intellectual property, and the policy questions they raise.
Briefing 003
A bill moving through the Senate will fix every state’s digital replica law at whatever it happened to be on January 2, 2025. Tennessee locked in a statute that protects a performer’s voice. Ours was written in 1977. It doesn’t mention voice,…
Briefing 002
A year ago Congress wrote the first national rules for payment stablecoins. It didn’t hand Wisconsin a stablecoin economy. It handed the state a set of choices, and it mostly hasn’t made them yet.
Briefing 001
Wisconsin modernized its money-transmission law, cracked down on crypto-kiosk fraud, and came within a Senate vote of clarifying digital-asset staking, but each move was reactive, not by design. Where Wisconsin’s blockchain policy stands, and what its legislature must decide next.
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