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Glass Houses and Tornados — Keynote at Devcon SEA

Peter Van Valkenburgh reprises the story of Clearville for the Ethereum community

The Tornado Cash sanctions and criminal prosecutions have challenged longstanding assumptions within crypto about the limits of money transmission licensing, money laundering statutes, and sanctions laws. They've also revealed a...

Coin Center’s Analysis of the Crypto Policy Landscape Following the Elections

Crypto got a lot of attention in the recent election, and many are wondering how friendly the new administration and Congress will be. In a nutshell, we expect things to...

The Parable of Clearville, the Land of Glass Houses

Peter Van Valkenburgh tells the a story of Tornado Cash's importance in the style of a children's storybook at the first DC Privacy Summit. 

Amicus Brief in Beba and DeFi Education Fund’s Opposition to Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss

A direct download of this brief is available here. 

Jarrett takes IRS back to court in fight over crypto block rewards

We are supporting his new case to keep pressure on the agency after it punted the first time

Today Josh Jarrett filed a new lawsuit challenging the IRS’s taxation of block rewards, and Coin Center is pleased to be assisting him in this litigation. We have been advocating...

Analysis: The disappointing denial of Tornado dev’s motion to dismiss

Inconsistent choices amid overlapping law skips over the serious issues at play and sets up for a dangerous precedent

Recently Judge Katherine Polk Failla offered her reasons for denying a motion to dismiss the charges against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm. Storm has been charged in the Southern District...

Some Personal News…

After a decade of defending crypto rights, we’re passing the torch to a new generation of leadership to continue the fight for privacy and innovation.

Coin Center celebrated its tenth anniversary earlier this year, which was an incredible milestone, and we think it’s the right time for another one. At the end of the year...

Decoding DeFi: Breaking Down the Future of Decentralized Finance

Testimony before the House Financial Services Committee

Find more information on this hearing here.

Is published speech regulated by the CFTC?

Don’t ask the CFTC - they won’t tell you.

This week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) took a notable action against Uniswap Labs which creates more questions than the answers it provides. This follows a line of CFTC...

ETHBerlin04 Keynote: Are there limits to the reach of US Sanctions laws?