Weekly research roundup covering SEC innovation exemption for tokenized stocks, failure of CLARITY Act, AI regulation, and market analysis from Galaxy, 4pillars, Glassnode, and CoinShares.
Regulation & Gov ·
Galaxy Research has begun a new series examining artificial intelligence through a philosophical lens, moving beyond its usual coverage of decentralized training, agentic systems, and AI infrastructure policy. The series opens by defining artificial intelligence broadly—from narrow task performance to hypothetical artificial general intelligence and artificial superior intelligence—and notes debate within industry leadership over whether AGI has been achieved, with some figures claiming its arrival alongside recent model releases while others argue existing systems lack robust reasoning and genuine generalization.
The research frames AI development historically, tracing conceptual origins from mechanical automata through the Turing test to the formal establishment of the field in 1956 at Dartmouth College. Rather than settling contentious questions about whether current systems constitute true AGI, the series will focus on how present-day AI systems match or exceed human performance in specific domains and what such comparisons can meaningfully reveal about machine cognition.
The multi-part investigation signals Galaxy's expansion into philosophical and historical territory alongside its existing analysis of inference markets, model access policy, and AI-driven security risks. Whether the series will address how these broader questions intersect with blockchain infrastructure and digital assets remains to be seen in forthcoming installments.