The GENIUS Act and the OCC final rule open a path to clearer payments, stronger ownership evidence and more dependable closings. Here is what that can mean for homebuyers, developers, family offices and global capital, and how to prepare.
The largest brokerages, portals and lenders are each building a stronger gateway. None yet gives the owner a portable, governed record that travels between them. In Entry #182, I map the 2026 brokerage power structure and set out the owner-controlled model in which brokerages, lenders and capital platforms compete to serve the asset owner—without owning the owner.
Entry #181 turns T-0 settlement into a standing operating standard for family offices: verified identity, bounded and revocable delegation, multi-party authorization, privacy-preserving disclosure and portable, Bitcoin-anchored evidence, with case studies and an eight-jurisdiction analysis.