Our Mission
Founded in 2021, DeFi Education Fund is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization advocating for sound DeFi policy. At DEF, we are working to build a mainstream understanding of decentralized finance, and to protect the rights of developers, users, and projects to freely create decentralized infrastructure and technology.
DEF’s Work in Action
Our work can be broadly organized in three key pillars: Defining DeFi. Representing DeFi. Mobilizing DeFi.
Defining Defi
DEF is defining DeFi for policymakers, regulators, and those looking to better understand DeFi’s technical nuances and overarching promise – and, as critically, explaining what DeFi is not.
Representing Defi
At the heart of our work, DEF is representing DeFi technologies, builders, and users in D.C. and wherever DeFi can use a strong advocate.
Mobilizing Defi
As the only organization in D.C. exclusively focused on DeFi, DEF is mobilizing the DeFi community to present and elevate a unified “DeFi voice” in critical policy and legal discussions.
DeFi deserves the opportunity to flourish.
DEF is the bridge between DeFi and the lawmakers and regulators creating policy. We believe that DeFi has immense potential for human prosperity. In order to get there, we need clear rules so that users have the confidence to transact freely using DeFi, and software developers have the clarity and freedom to innovate they need to build the future of our financial system.
DEF’s only agenda is to remain unwaveringly focused on what’s best for DeFi.
We work across all three branches of government and around the world.
