There's Gary Genslers everywhere. It's not just a U.S. thing. There's a deep government instinct to expand and control that free people everywhere need to fight.

We have to keep the internet open and free.

Borrow against LSTs and Optimism native assets to mint HAI- an over-collateralized & free-floating stable asset

I still think this is a good thing. Entities that connect crypto to the banking cartels *will* have capital controls. This is why folks like RAI, @letsgethai, and others are making decentralized floatcoins that replace USD stablecoins. Bans just encourage people to use crypto without centralized bank intermediaries.