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FBI Issues PSA on DeFi Hacks; House Oversight Requests Info from Regulators, Exchanges; Fed to Roll

FBI Issues PSA Warning Investors of DeFi Smart Contract Hacks What happened? On Monday, the FBI issued a public service announcement to war

Alexey Pertsev Update; Gensler's Article in WSJ; FTX Receives Cease & Desist from FDIC

Alexey Pertsev Update A Dutch court ordered that Alexey Pertsev, a Tornado Cash developer, to remain in jail for up to 90 days while awaitin

Tornado Cash Update; EU Contemplates AML Regulator; Our Response to Treasury’s RFC

Tornado Cash Update We still have way more questions than answers about the U.S. Treasury’s sanctioning of immutable smart contracts —...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...