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Treasury’s GENIUS report is encouraging but there is still work to be done
Introduction On March 6, pursuant to the GENIUS Act, the Department of Treasury published its report to Congress on “Innovative Technologies to Counter Illicit Finance Involving Digital Assets.” For background,...
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...
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...
Trump’s Big Crypto Report Is Coming. It Should Address Block Rewards and Privacy.
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the agency heads sitting on the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets to produce a report reevaluating outdated or...
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...
It has become a quadrennial holiday tradition in crypto policy for the outgoing administration to release a civil-liberties-damaging rulemaking at the last possible moment, the midnight period before a new...
Glass Houses and Tornados — Keynote at Devcon SEA
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...