Six months of crypto policy: The good, the bad, and the lingering questions
An update and a half-year scorecard
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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,...
Software is Speech: Why Regulators Cannot Invent the Missing Middlemen
Financial regulation has traditionally applied where a person takes another’s affairs in hand—exercising custody, control, or delegated judgment. Modern software, however, allows individuals to transact directly, without intermediaries. Some regulators...
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...
Principles for Crypto Legislation
A general introduction to “crypto,” both the underlying technology as well as the larger ecosystem, and a set of principles for legislating in this area to ensure that American rights...
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.
Coin Center’s Top Policy Priorities for 2025
Our agenda to protect developers and users of open blockchain networks
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...
Amicus Brief in Beba and DeFi Education Fund’s Opposition to Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss
Coin Center submits this brief to address the issue of organizational standing in the context of open source cryptocurrency development. Plaintiff Beba has clear-cut standing. To the extent this Court...
Decoding DeFi: Breaking Down the Future of Decentralized Finance
Testimony before the House Financial Services Committee