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Treasury Designates Tornado Cash; Lawmakers Urge Fed to Speed Up Efforts; UK Parliament and Crypto
Treasury Designates Tornado Cash What happened? On Monday, the Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC), the Treasury Department agency...
Aug 22, 20224 min read

Toomey Criticizes SEC's Crypto Approach; Blockchain Advisor Role in WH; Senate Rep Seek Support
Toomey Argues Against SEC “Regulation-by-Enforcement” Approach What happened? On Tuesday of last week, Senator Patrick Toomey (R-PA) sent...
Aug 22, 20223 min read

Behnam on Future of Crypto Regulation; The SEC's Curious Case; Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act
CFTC’s Behnam Argues for Legislative Clarity What happened? On Monday, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Rostin Behnam...
Aug 22, 20224 min read

Update on Stablecoin Legis; G20 Panel on Stablecoins; SEC Appears Before Subcomittee
Update on Stablecoin Legislation from HFSC What happened? In an interview last week, Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) told CoinDesk that...
Aug 22, 20225 min read

FSB Statement on Crypto; Fed's Brainard Calls for Reg; Treasury Announces Framework on Int'l Eng.
Financial Stability Board Issues Statement on Regulation of “Crypto-Asset Activity” What happened? On Monday, the Financial Stability...
Aug 22, 20224 min read

FATF Updates Standards; Yellen Pushes for Stablecoin Regime; Bank of England Calls for Enhanced Reg
FATF Updates Standards for Virtual Assets & VASPs What happened? Late last week, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) released its...
Aug 22, 20224 min read


Response to the Financial Services Regulatory Auth. of Abu Dhabi Global Market's Discussion Paper
The DeFi Education Fund submitted a comment letter last week to the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global...
Aug 22, 20221 min read

EU Finalizes Major Crypto Reg. Packages; Treasury Dep. Sec. on Innovation; House Ag Crypto Hearing
EU Finalizes Landmark Crypto Bills What happened? This week, the EU came to final agreement on its “Transfer of Funds Regulation” (TFR)...
Aug 22, 20224 min read

AML/CFT Part 1: Where Government Meets DeFi
There’s a lot of focus on decentralized finance (DeFi) in policy conversations these days. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill, in particular, have...
Aug 22, 20225 min read

AML/CFT Part 2: Sanctions Compliance and Law Enforcement in the DeFi Ecosystem
In the last post, we debunked the common misconception that DeFi protocols are out of compliance with current laws and policies in the...
Aug 22, 20224 min read
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