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Sep 15, 20235 min read

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...

Sep 11, 20233 min read

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

Sep 8, 20234 min read

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

Sep 1, 20234 min read

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

Aug 25, 20233 min read

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

Aug 18, 20234 min read

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

Aug 11, 20234 min read

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

Aug 7, 20233 min read

Here’s what the DeFi Education Fund (DEF) has been up to in July. If you have any questions or would like to learn more about a specific...

Aug 4, 20233 min read

DEF Submits a FOIA Request to the SEC in Relation to Kirschner v. JPMorgan Chase Bank What happened? On July 27, 2023, the DeFi Education...

Jul 28, 20233 min read

Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act Markup What happened? This week on Wednesday, the House Financial Services...