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...
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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...
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the agency heads sitting on the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets to produce a report reevaluating outdated or...
Coin Center director of policy Jason Somensatto testified on fair tax treatment for block rewards and de minimis crypto transactions. Hearing information is available here. Jason's testimony is available here....
It’s time to pass the CLARITY Act
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...
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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...