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CFTC chair: your fridge could one day stake Ether and launch memecoins

  • —Selig said a fridge could buy groceries with income from staking Ether or launch its own memecoin
  • —The CFTC is asking who is liable if an autonomous agent goes rogue
  • —Regulators are weighing a "KYA" — know-your-agent — framework alongside KYC
  • —Coinbase and Binance have already rolled out tools for autonomous agent trading
Why it matters: The CFTC is shaping how AI agents operate in finance, a framework that will determine whether autonomous systems can trade crypto without registration.
Source: Cryptonews.net