Nina Patel

Policy wonk and regulatory expert. Former SEC staffer. Makes sense of the legal maze for normal people.

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Articles by Nina Patel

Oct 23, 2026

22 Objections and One Filing: Wall Street's Fight Over OKX-ICE Tokenized Stocks

Twenty-two companies have now formally objected to the OKX-ICE joint venture's plan to list tokenized U.S. equities under the SEC's innovation exemption, with Wells Fargo among the six most recent filers. The objections aren't really about investor protection. They're about who gets to own the record.

Oct 23, 2026

Ethereum Scraps Hoodi's Oct. 26 Glamsterdam Activation Over EIP-8037 Contract Clash

Developers pulled the October 26 Glamsterdam activation on Hoodi, along with the Gloas consensus change and a planned gas limit hike to 200 million. No new epoch has been named, and operators are being told to stop trusting the old compatibility tables.

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