Jackson Mueller

Excited to lead the new @CFTC Innovation Task Force. Under @ChairmanSelig, the ITF will provide clarity to builders by advancing the @CFTC’s innovation agenda across crypto, AI, & PMs. Clear rules of the road will ensure the new frontier of finance is built in the US 🇺🇸

Ugh. This is brutal..... Absolutely love @HowieRose. You'll be missed!

@valkenburgh At some point my kids will experience a full week of school.....

I should have also had (D) it is actually very bad, Peter just happens to live in the small area of DC that got like drizzle and no real wind?

Aside from parts of 495 flooding. Most of today's DC-area storms and associated damage seem quite tame. Nonetheless schools and businesses were preemptively closed. Was this: (A) true model error (it looked objectively really bad until it didn't) (B) typical overhype from meteorologists, or (C) has the increased availability of modeling tools, the rise of new apps/startups and their attendant class of small-time meteorologist, and the addition of social media click incentives led to a new kind of emergent mass weather catastrophization?

@colinwilhelm Debating whether to drive to a reception or simply hold onto an umbrella and fly over the Potomac.

I sincerely hope nothing serious happens. But after the amount of severe weather warnings D.C.'s received over the last 48 hours, I: A) am now legally considered a storm chaser and B) am expecting this kind of weather this afternoon 👇

@EconWithNick @FT @Lagarde Recall, the "turning point" in my view for digital euro was the unilateral sanctions actions applied to China (I believe) during Trump 1.0 that really burned EU business leaders

In an interview with the @FT, @Lagarde openly said the digital euro could be used to evade US sanctions.

I'm surprised no one has noticed this... but the @ECB is openly touting that the newest use case for the digital euro is sanctions evasion. cato.org/blog/digital-e…

@0xYager May have just been refiled. New link here. reginfo.gov/public/do/eoDe…

@jackson_mueller You mean this one? reginfo.gov/public/do/eAge…

Did OIRA finish with reviewing the SEC's forthcoming token taxonomy rulemaking or did SEC pull it? Original OIRA link not showing anything anymore.

My entire timeline currently is @ChairmanSelig and folks either in support of or against his comments on prediction markets. Not one NY Mets tweet or anything else to break up the timeline. #policynerd

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Pizza wedge is not an option @CarolineDPham.

Launching our first B2C Product in the Fintech x Public Policy intersection! I just made the formal announcement on LinkedIn. X-posting it here. I am thrilled to share that in a fitting marker to the arrival of new year, Black Dot Public Policy Advisors is launching a course on “*Theory & Practice Of Fintech Public Policy*”, with the dynamic team at @PublicPolicyPuzzle {Relevant Links in the Comments} Why this Course? The hardest challenge for me, as a founder, has been to find the kind of 10x talent that matches Black Dot’s gravitas in the financial policy domain. Given the complexity of problems we troubleshoot- I am surprised regularly that hiring has been my hardest challenge. Along the way, it became clear that many “feeder domains” into public policy—law, journalism, technology—often lack an interdisciplinary approach that situates advocacy in the context of business, economics, and finance, and those limits show up immediately when this talent enters the workforce. On the other hand, the “Public Policy Course” product on the education market mitigates one pedagogical flaw but not the other. It empowers future practitioners with fundamental concepts and the ability to run statistical tests of this or the other type, but does not equip them with robust sectoral depth as might allow them to apply these Econ 101 ideas to their professional life writ large. This course is an attempt to solve for that gap by crafting a syllabus that marries breadth and depth in a practical way that the market will find attractive.  Just like everything we do at Black Dot, it will be practitioner-led, grounded in lived policy processes, and focused on reasoning through trade-offs. Why Black Dot? Because we have lived this ethos all our lives. Because we have spent a lifetime at this intersection—working on Digital Bank Reg. frameworks, payments policy, digital assets and more—while advocating for policy outcomes that are pro-innovation, pro-consumer, and fiscally and operationally realistic. The broader ambition behind this course is to help catalyse a generation of public policy professionals and stakeholders who consistently push for energy-efficient policy outcomes in financial services—rules that achieve their objectives with limited unintended consequences. For Whom? The Course will unlock “alpha” for these categories of participants the most: -Public Policy rookies looking to get a headstart in Fintech -Public Policy practitioners from other domains that are looking to move laterally -Policy Professionals already in Fintech that are learning as they go but would love a systematic way to accelerate their assimilation -Product and Risk Managers in Fintech that try to keep up with regulation through water cooler conversations (low, signal / noise ratio) fragmented webinar ecosystem (moderate SNR) or just Whatsapp groups (low SNR) -Journalists that cover the space If you (or your team) would like to be part of the inaugural cohort, drop a comment or send a DM, and the Public Policy Puzzle team will share more details.

Deadline alert🚨 Leaving crypto meeting, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) tells reporters a market structure markup *will* happen next week. “My understanding is that the chairman is gonna have a vote, come hell or high water, on Thursday for the next week,” Kennedy says.

2026…run it back Go Irish ☘️

Santa, this is Rudolph. He is one of the most undervalued reindeer in the North Pole. His only defect is he has a red nose.

News: @RepMaxMiller is circulating a 14-page working draft of his crypto tax bill which would set de minimis rules for stablecoin transactions, wash sale rules & more, per copy we obtained @RepHorsford is on the bill as Dem co-lead READ IT HERE - punchbowl.news/file_4687/

He turned out to be pretty good.

New tokenization no-action letter: sec.gov/files/tm/no-ac… and sec.gov/newsroom/speec…

Clarity on broker-dealer custody from the SEC staff: sec.gov/newsroom/speec…