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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the agency heads sitting on the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets to produce a report reevaluating outdated or...

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...

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...

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...

It’s time for Congress to kill the broker rule.

Now nearing a vote, revoking the “Broker Rule” is good policy that deserves bipartisan support

We anticipate that Congress will soon vote on a joint resolution to revoke the IRS’s unconstitutional December broker rule.1 The December rule obligates mere software and infrastructure providers to identify...

Coin Center Fellow Michael Lewellen is suing the DOJ over their criminalization of software development

Coin Center supports a new lawsuit to oppose legal reasoning that would require just about everyone in crypto get a money transmission license

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...

New CFPB rulemaking makes no distinction between custodial and self-custody wallets

They are completely different products with different risks and covering self-custody is beyond statutory authority and unconstitutional.

Today the CFPB released a new notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on “Electronic Fund Transfers Through Accounts Established Primarily for Personal, Family, or Household Purposes Using Emerging Payment Mechanisms.” In...