Alex Grieve is Paradigm's Vice President of Government Affairs. He previously led the crypto policy practice at Tiger Hill Partners and worked in government affairs at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as an aide to U.S. House Speaker John Boehner.
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Alex Grieve is Paradigm's Vice President of Government Affairs. He previously led the crypto policy practice at Tiger Hill Partners and worked in government affairs at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as an aide to U.S. House Speaker John Boehner.
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X account @alexandergrieve posted: “Personal agents are everywhere (Muse! Instinct! Hermes! GrokBot! Dots! Duet!). And, increasingly, they're running into walls – similar walls to the ones banks threw up during the Open Banking fights of the past decade, as fintech users struggled to connect their apps to their bank-held financial data. It's time for Open Agentic Commerce. In Dodd-Frank Section 1033, the backbone of Open Banking, the definition of “consumer” reads: “an individual or an agent, trustee, or representative acting on behalf of an individual.” Congress obviously wasn’t contemplating AI agents when it wrote Dodd-Frank — but technology changing doesn’t obviate the underlying principle: consumers should be able to choose who, or what, transacts on their behalf. Banks and companies like Amazon have real, legitimate concerns about agents becoming vectors for fraud or unauthorized transactions. But those are arguments for building portals for secure access, not for prohibiting…
X account @alexandergrieve posted: “Patrick worked tirelessly for the last two years to bring regulatory clarity to digital asset markets. Passing any bill is a complex orchestration of distributed consensus building — and CLARITY had to navigate multiple committees in each chamber of Congress, and update rules”
X account @alexandergrieve posted: “This is so good — it’s about DoW procurement, but could be about really the entire federal bureaucracy: “But here comes the problem: Emerging from the Cold War, our slow, steady, and reliable acquisition system failed to keep pace. It got bogged down in red tape and what I call”
X account @alexandergrieve posted: “Two Boehnerland axioms: 1) hire people who are as great to work with as they are competent 2) celebrate them as they advance through their careers, especially when they initially depart your employ 1) is rare, 2) is even rarer. JAB: the best to ever do it.”
