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With Roman Storm's trial starting tomorrow, DEF put together a helpful backgrounder to get everyone up to speed. "Today, the target is Tornado Cash... tomorrow it could be the developers of a VPN, an encrypted messaging app, or a peer-to-peer file sharing tool."
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NEW: On July 7, 2025, DEF, Paradigm, Bitcoin Policy Institute, Blockchain Association, Crypto Council for Innovation, Digital Chamber of Commerce, Solana Policy Institute, and the Uniswap Foundation, filed an amicus brief in Michael Lewellen v. Pamela Bondi in support of Lewellen’s opposition to the DOJ’s motion to dismiss. Let's dive in🧵
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Today, DEF & Coin Center are happy to submit an expert opinion to the Dutch court handling Alexey Pertsev’s appeal as he undergoes trial in the Netherlands. The brief addresses key technological aspects of the Tornado Cash Protocol as well as privacy-related tools within DeFi. 🧵
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The DOJ's charge against the Samourai Wallet devs is based on an incorrect interpretation of Section 1960. Even though the court denied the request to allow amicus briefs in the case, we @fund-defi and @blockchainassn will keep advocating for the correct interpretation - only those with control over customer assets are money transmitters. We will keep beating this drum.
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Congress has an opportunity to protect developers of non-custodial peer-to-peer software protocols from being unreasonably targeted for regulation. Today, we — Coin Center, Solana Policy Institute, The Digital Chamber, Blockchain Association, Crypto Council for Innovation, Paradigm, and Bitcoin Policy Institute — are collectively calling on Congressional leaders to support the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA) by including it in market structure legislation.
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🚨The DeFi Education Fund and Uniswap Foundation provided a submission to the SEC Crypto Task Force focused exclusively on DAOs. What’s the TLDR? See the 🧵 👇
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For more info - https://x.com/gopmajoritywhip/status/1925206873701048341?s=46&t=YO0b1U63huDV__W5NJ3LQw
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Grateful to Reps Emmer and Torres for introducing the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act to protect software devs from unreasonable regulation meant for intermediaries
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1/ DEF proudly supports Rep. Tom Emmer & Rep. Ritchie Torres in re-introducing the Blockchain Regulatory Clarity Act today (BRCA). The BRCA is bipartisan legislation that would protect developers of non-custodial peer-to-peer software protocols with no control over user assets from being incorrectly defined as operators of money transmitting businesses (MTBs).
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Everyone in crypto should care about stablecoins. The best way to bring millions of people onchain than replacing their tradfi payment account with a wallet. Everyone in crypto should care about stablecoin legislation. Tell your Senator this matters 👇 https://x.com/standwithcrypto/status/1923142534856847634
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Notable update in the Samourai Wallet Case: Today, devs’ lawyers revealed that despite being *explicitly* told by FinCEN that non-custodial software such as Samourai Wallet is most likely not a money transmitter, DOJ prosecuted the devs anyway…
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If you care about the future of crypto - SIGN THE PETITION
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If you care about ENDING the lawless prosecution of software developers in the U.S., and dismissing the case against Roman Storm, please sign our petition👇 Protect developers. Protect innovation. Protect DeFi. Protect America's leadership in tech.
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The petition is linked here: https://section1960.defieducationfund.org/
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Prosecuting software devs for the actions of 3rd parties they can’t control shouldn’t have happened in the first place, but it did. It’s time to correct course. Sign our petition asking the Admin to put a stop to cases like the one against Roman Storm ⬇️
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5/ link to PDF version of the letter- https://www.defieducationfund.org/_files/ugd/84ba66_04e7a0f6cd7e4c95b47b08e0db16abb0.pdf
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4/ Thank you to those who collaborated with us and provided feedback, and to those who published their own good work that we could build on- @milesjennings @jumpcrypto @a16zcrypto @paradigm @thedrc among others. Special thank you to DEF Board member @jchervinsky for thoughtful partnership and significant contributions.
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2/ Our 5 principles for the Token Safe Harbor, which are described in detail in our letter, are: (1) technology-agnostic approach, (2) broad eligibility criteria for projects intending to decentralize, (3) well-calibrated disclosure and compliance considerations, (4) clearly-defined exit criteria, and (5) appropriate treatment of secondary market activity.
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3/ While we wait for Congress to enact market structure legislation, which is absolutely necessary but may take a while, the SEC should offer a Safe Harbor framework that gives DeFi devs a path forward and protects the public by providing for info disclosures.
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We @fund-defi wrote 5 guiding principles for the SEC Crypto Task Force to consider as they implement a Token Safe Harbor for projects *intending to decentralize*, which include proposed eligibility and exit criteria. Check it out and tell us what you think in our feedback form linked below. https://www.defieducationfund.org/post/defi-education-fund-submits-guiding-principles-for-token-safe-harbor-to-sec-crypto-task-force
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