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Senate market structure negotiations must not sacrifice hard won developer protections
For months, Coin Center has advocated for two critical parts of the market structure legislation being debated in the Senate. The House crafted a non-partisan bill, Clarity, that was carefully...
A PDF version of this comment is available here. October 17, 2025 TREAS-DO-2025-0070-0001 To whom it may concern: Coin Center is an independent nonprofit research and advocacy center focused on...
Digital Identity is broken. The tech to fix it is ready. Here’s how the government can help.
For decades, America has relied on an identity verification system that is costly, intrusive, and ineffective. It fails to stop serious crime, while burdening ordinary people with endless paperwork and...
Tear Down this Walled Garden: American Values and Digital Identity
Financial institutions today are burdened by identity verification frameworks that are simultaneously costly, privacy-invasive, and ineffective at deterring illicit finance. Despite vast surveillance systems built on the foundation of the...
Six months of crypto policy: The good, the bad, and the lingering questions
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...
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...
To End ‘Regulation by Prosecution’ Drop These Three Cases
In 2023 and 2024 the DOJ pursued investigations and brought crypto prosecutions that no one would have expected. They unjustly targeted non-custodial wallet and protocol developers and massively chilled innovation...
Today Coin Center Fellow and smart contract security expert Michael Lewellen filed suit against the Department of Justice for their chilling interpretation of the unlicensed money transmission criminal statutes. Coin...