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Could Wisconsin Strip Your Voting Rights for Using Prediction Markets?
About this episode
On CoinDesk's The Policy Protocol, Renato Mariotti is joined by guest host Ari Redbord, Global Head of Policy at TRM Labs, for a conversation on the politics of the CLARITY Act, the state-vs-federal fight over prediction markets, and Wisconsin's invocation of an 1849 law that could bar prediction-market users from voting.
And, they sit down with Rachel Anderica, Head of Global Operations at Anchorage Digital, who walks through Anchorage's agentic banking build inside its OCC trust and a "cashless reserves" model in partnership with JPMorgan.
Plus, the hosts name the TradFi endorsers of CLARITY — BlackRock, Fidelity, and Goldman Sachs — as the Person of the Week.
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Timecodes:
00:00 Cold Open: Wisconsin's 1849 Voting Law
01:13 Welcome to The Policy Protocol
01:29 Ari Redbord Joins as Guest Host
02:13 CLARITY's Law Enforcement Provisions
03:05 'Burn and Reissue': Getting Funds Back to Victims
04:19 The Politics: Why the Votes Aren't There
06:26 Prediction Markets and the CFTC Battle
08:04 Wisconsin's 1849 Law and the Right to Vote
09:53 Federalism, Circuit Splits, and the Road to SCOTUS
11:10 The HFSC Scam Report and AI at Scale
14:04 Rachel Anderika of Anchorage Digital Joins
14:34 Who's Liable When an Agent Moves Money?
18:56 OCC Rulemaking, Secondary Markets, and Sanctions
20:40 'Cashless Reserves' with JPMorgan Tokenized Funds
22:53 Trash Talk: The Skinny Master Account
24:29 Person of the Week: The TradFi Endorsers of CLARITY
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