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Client Guide

California DFAL License Requirements: Who Needs One in 2026?

California's Digital Financial Assets Law is now live, and it is not the law businesses spent the spring preparing for. Who needs a DFPI license, who is exempt, what S.B. 97 rewrote one day before the deadline, and why the $500,000 surety bond everyone cites does not exist.

July 20, 2026 · 20 min readRead More →
Thought Leadership

Agents with Wallets, Agents in Vaults: A KYA Analysis of Claude Managed Agents for Digital Assets and Regulated Industries

Claude Managed Agents' architecture—persistent sessions, MCP connectors, bash execution, cloud-hosted containers—creates regulatory triggers self-hosted agents don't face. A former SEC Honors Program intern in the SEC's Cyber Unit maps the compliance gaps with the KYA Five Pillars framework.

April 12, 2026 · 22 min readRead More →
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Building a Stablecoin or Payments Product?

GENIUS Act compliance, state licensing strategy, and reserve requirements — mapped to your launch timeline.

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