Intelligence Briefings
Member intelligence on the Wisconsin bills, study committees and regulators shaping the digital economy. Bottom line first, then what happened, why it matters and what comes next. Written for operators and counsel.
How we read a market
The evidence behind the position
A briefing is only as good as what it is built on. We read the bill, the filings, the record and, where it applies, the chain, then we say what the data supports and, just as plainly, what it does not. Every briefing cites its sources, so the underlying work is something a member can check.
Illustration: linkability network of Ethereum accounts across the top 15 NFT collections, from Tošić, Hrovatin & Vičič, Data 8(7):116 (2023), doi:10.3390/data8070116, used under CC BY 4.0; background made transparent.
Advocate membership
Briefings reach Advocate members first
Intelligence Briefings are written for the people who have to act on them. Advocate members get each briefing in full when it publishes, plus the Intelligence Desk: the briefings we are working on now, and a channel to send us what you are seeing from your side of the market.
The first quarterly briefing, on Q4 2026, is in preparation: the federal stablecoin rules, the two study committees moving to drafting, and what both mean for Wisconsin operators.
Every briefing, the same five parts
Bottom line
One or two sentences you could act on if you read nothing else.
What happened
The facts, sourced to the official record: minutes, bill text, agency filings. Not a press-release summary.
Why it matters
Who it lands on: which businesses carry the cost, which licenses are touched, and what it means for consumers.
What’s next
The dates, the likely next steps and what to watch, so you hear about a change before it moves.
Sources
Every claim links to where it came from.
Read the tracker and the committee record
Every bill we brief is scored and sourced on the public Wisconsin Digital Policy Tracker, and the 2026 Interim Study Committees page keeps the full public record of the committees drafting the next session’s bills. Intelligence Briefings go deeper and reach members first.