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Putting our research to work through testimony before lawmakers, regulatory filings, and policy letters.
Regulatory Filings
Comment of Coin Center to the Department of the Treasury on GENIUS Act Regulations on Payment Stablecoin Issuance, Offer, and Sale
TREAS-DO-2026-0496 To whom it may concern: Coin Center is an independent nonprofit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Our mission is to build a better understanding of these technologies and to promote a…
Comment of Coin Center to FinCEN and the Agencies on Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuer Customer Identification Program
To whom it may concern: Coin Center is an independent nonprofit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Our mission is to build a better understanding of these technologies and to promote a regulatory…
Comment to FinCEN on AML/CFT Programs
To whom it may concern: Coin Center is an independent nonprofit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Our mission is to build a better understanding of these technologies and to promote a regulatory…
Comment to FinCEN and OFAC on PPSI AML/CFT and Sanctions Program Requirements
To whom it may concern: Coin Center is an independent nonprofit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Our mission is to build a better understanding of these technologies and to promote a regulatory…
Letter in support of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act
Dear Chairman Scott, Ranking Member Warren, Chairman Lummis, and Ranking Member Gallego: On behalf of Coin Center, I write to express our support for the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. Since 2018, Coin Center has called for the creation of a de novo federal regulatory…
Letter to the SEC regarding First Amendment limits on jurisdiction
Dear Chair Atkins and Commissioner Peirce, This letter addresses a threshold issue for the Commission’s approach to digital assets: the First Amendment limits on SEC jurisdiction over software development, publication, and neutral web and blockchain infrastructure. Those limits should not be left to emerge only…
Letter to the SEC’s Crypto Task Force
Dear Chair Atkins and Commissioner Peirce, We appreciated your joint remarks at ETHDenver and are encouraged by the Commission’s stated interest in providing durable clarity for crypto markets. The agenda you outlined reflects a welcome shift toward prospective rulemaking, public participation, and regulatory coherence. We…
Comment of Coin Center on Treasury’s Request for Comment on Innovative Methods to Detect Illicit Activity Involving Digital Assets
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 the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies such as Bitcoin. Our mission is to build a better understanding of these technologies and to promote…
Response to Senate Banking Committee Digital Asset Market Structure Request for Information
Coin Center thanks the Senate Banking Committee for providing this opportunity to comment on your discussion draft of market structure legislation. Ensuring adequate and appropriate regulation of trusted entities in the cryptocurrency ecosystem while clearly carving out and protecting mere software and infrastructure providers is…
Comments to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network on “Proposal of Special Measure Regarding Convertible Virtual Currency Mixing, as a Class of Transactions of Primary Money Laundering Concern”
To whom it may concern: Coin Center is an independent nonprofit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies such as Bitcoin. Our mission is to build a better understanding of these technologies and to promote a regulatory climate that…