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Tornado Cash Update We still have way more questions than answers about the U.S. Treasury’s sanctioning of immutable smart contracts —...

Treasury Designates Tornado Cash What happened? On Monday, the Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC), the Treasury Department agency...

Toomey Argues Against SEC “Regulation-by-Enforcement” Approach What happened? On Tuesday of last week, Senator Patrick Toomey (R-PA) sent...

CFTC’s Behnam Argues for Legislative Clarity What happened? On Monday, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Rostin Behnam...

Update on Stablecoin Legislation from HFSC What happened? In an interview last week, Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) told CoinDesk that...

Financial Stability Board Issues Statement on Regulation of “Crypto-Asset Activity” What happened? On Monday, the Financial Stability...

FATF Updates Standards for Virtual Assets & VASPs What happened? Late last week, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) released its...

The DeFi Education Fund submitted a comment letter last week to the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global...

EU Finalizes Landmark Crypto Bills What happened? This week, the EU came to final agreement on its “Transfer of Funds Regulation” (TFR)...

There’s a lot of focus on decentralized finance (DeFi) in policy conversations these days. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill, in particular, have...