CoinDesk's The Policy Protocol hosts Rebecca Rettig and Renato Mariotti open with two hot topics: Coinbase's SEC-registered AI agentic trading launch and tribal gaming operators' letter to Senators Thune and Schumer demanding that the CLARITY Act include a prohibition on prediction markets.
Then Katie Boller Gosewisch, Executive Director of the Alliance to End Human Trafficking, joins to challenge CLARITY's Section 604, arguing that shielding DeFi developers from money-transmitter liability creates a "duty of care" gap that traffickers can exploit.
Plus, Rebecca and Renato close by naming Meta as their Person of the Week for its reported move into points-based prediction markets.
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Timecodes:
00:00 Welcome to The Policy Protocol
00:51 This Week: AI Trading, Prediction Markets, Human Trafficking
01:15 Coinbase Launches AI Agentic Trading
02:22 SEC-Registered AI Agents and the Hallucination Problem
03:43 Tribes Concerns Over Clarity Act
05:30 Rebuttals to the Tribes' Clarity Concerns
06:23 Katie Boller Gosewisch Joins the Show
07:31 Section 604: The Liability Shield Traffickers Could Exploit
08:59 Are DeFi Developers Money Transmitters?
09:52 What Section 604 Actually Says, and What It Doesn't
10:54 Should We Reinstate a Human Trafficking Coordinator?
11:30 Duty of Care and the 'Turning a Blind Eye' Problem
13:07 The Roman Storm/Tornado Cash Case as the Test
14:37 Future Loopholes and the Reasonable Doubt Risk
15:28 Cryptocurrency, Anonymity, and Rising Online Trafficking
16:02 Blockchain Is Transparent, and That Helps Law Enforcement
17:39 Person of the Week: Meta
19:58 The Points-Based Prediction Market and What Meta Could Unlock
