Six months of crypto policy: The good, the bad, and the lingering questions
An update and a half-year scorecard
We’re six months into the new administration and the 119th Congress. So much has happened that it’s difficult to keep it all straight. For clarity, here are the big news...
Trump’s Big Crypto Report Is Coming. It Should Address Block Rewards and Privacy.
The upcoming Executive Order report is a chance to fix broken tax treatment of block rewards and walk back dangerous surveillance proposals.
President Trump’s Executive Order on digital assets (EO 14178) directed the agency heads sitting on the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets to produce a report reevaluating outdated or...
Coin Center director of policy Jason Somensatto testified on fair tax treatment for block rewards and de minimis crypto transactions. Hearing information is available here. Jason's testimony is available here....
It’s time to pass the CLARITY Act
It brings well scoped market structure regulation and certainty for blockchain developers.
Coin Center supports the passage of the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act of 2025 and will continue engagement with Congress to ensure that final market structure legislation upholds Coin...
Written in partnership with the Defi Education Fund
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Torres and Emmer Reintroduce the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act
This week, Representatives Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) reintroduced the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA)—a bipartisan bill that offers essential clarity for developers, miners, stakers, and...
An amendment to the GENIUS act would give the President unchecked power over open source software
Senator Jack Reed has submitted an amendment to the GENIUS Act in the Senate that would overturn the Tornado Cash sanctions ruling in the Fifth Circuit, and explicitly give the...
What the Proposed 5% Remittance Tax Means for Crypto Users
A ‘Big Beautiful Tax Bill’ with bigger privacy questions.
Over the past few months the new Congress and Administration have shown that they can approach crypto regulation with deliberation and respect for process: the repeal of the broker rule...
When Prosecutors Ignore the Regulators
Only the courts or Congress can end this overreach. Here’s how.
A recent court filing in the Samourai Wallet case lays bare something deeper than a misapplication of the law. It shows a breakdown in the trust that software developers and...