The laws weren't written by written for crypto. They weren't written contemplating crypto. I mean,

you have the securities laws where a bunch of people who helped write those were alive during

the Civil War problematic, right? Well, it's the same but way worse with agentic commerce,

meaning all of our laws were written with the implicit assumption that the human, a human being,

was taking the action. And now we have this conundrum where the humans are no longer taking

action. The agent is taking the action. The agent is the customer.

Hi all, and welcome to Dex in the city where the wallets are cold and the takes are hot.

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Luckily, I have the ability to speak very fast in times like this.

So first, we have Jesse, Web3 prosecutor turned Web3 protector at Ribbett Capital.

And I'm your host, Catherine KK, fluent in tradfai and conversant in deep tech, over at Starkware.

V is out today in beautiful Paris at the Proof of Talk conference.

Very exciting. I have heard great things about

this conference um be really knows how to travel let me tell you oh my gosh she sent us a picture

of like the beautiful rain coming down in paris i'm like what are we doing with our lives but

i'm glad it's just us today so that we can rant about everything.

I mean, there is so much happening this week.

I know you're going to sort of lay out the land here.

But to me, like the story of this week is finance is officially becoming autonomous.

And we're finding different ways into that path.

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