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Check out the latest DeFi policy developments and updates from the DeFi Education Fund.

SEC Oversight Hearing; NYDFS's New Regulatory Framework

SEC Oversight Hearing For the Committee on Financial Services What happened? On Wednesday, the House Committee on Financial Services...

HFSC Digital Dollar Hearing; SEC Cracks Down on NFTs

HFSC Digital Dollar Hearing What happened? Last Thursday, the House Financial Services Committee - Subcommittee on Digital Assets,...

DEF August Recap

DEF’s August Recap Here’s what the DeFi Education Fund (DEF) has been up to in August. If you have any questions or would like to learn...

SEC Oversight Hearing; CFTC Goes After DeFi; IOSCO DeFi Consultation Report

SEC Oversight Hearing What Happened? On Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs conducted a hearing on the...

DEF Fights Back Against Patent Troll

Late last week, the DeFi Education Fund took action to protect DeFi and crypto from invalid patent infringement claims. DEF filed a...

SEC Brings First NFT Enforcement Action; Court Dismisses Class Action Against Uniswap Labs

SEC Brings Its First NFT Enforcement Action What happened? Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) settled its first...

Treasury and IRS Proposed Broker Rulemaking; Grayscale Wins Over SEC

Treasury and IRS Proposed Broker Rulemaking What happened? Last week, the US Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)...

Tornado Cash Developers Indicted; Court Rules “Tornado Cash” Is a Sanctionable Entity

Tornado Cash Developers Indicted for Money Laundering and Sanctions Violations What happened? On Wednesday, the US Department of Justice...

DEF Files Amicus Brief in Coinbase vs. SEC; Senator Lummis’ Amicus Brief in Support of Coinbase

Crypto Community Rallies: DeFi Education Fund Files Amicus Brief in Coinbase vs. SEC Case What Happened? Last week, we filed an amicus...

PayPal Launches USD-backed Stablecoin; Coinbase Seeks Dismissal; UK Stablecoin Update

PayPal Launches USD-backed Stablecoin What happened? On Monday, PayPal, the U.S-based international fintech, together with Paxos,...