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Software is Speech: Why Regulators Cannot Invent the Missing Middlemen
“i’m sorry that your warrantless surveillance regime was built on the assumption that people would always need intermediaries to transact” — unattributed Financial regulation has traditionally applied where a person...
Continuing the fight for developer rights with appeal to Fifth Circuit
Michael Lewellen has filed a notice of appeal in Lewellen v. Garland to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, seeking review of the district court’s March 25...
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,...
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...
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...