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Resources

DEF Materials

Comment Letters

Research

Explainers

Legal Filings & Amicus Briefs

Guiding Principles

DEF Materials

DEF Letter with the Blockchain Association Opposing the Re-Confirmation of Caroline Crenshaw (December 2024)

Through the Looking Glass: Conceptualizing Control and Analyzing Criminal Liability For Unlicensed Money Transmitting Businesses Under Section 1960 (December 2024)

Published in The International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators

Square Peg in a Round Hole: Why the Bank Secrecy Act Should Not Apply to Blockchain Participants (November 2024)

DeFi Guiding Principles

Three Years of DEF

2023: Year in Review

DEF State of the Union 2024

DeFi, Inclusion, and Financial Democracy

Comment Letters

Comment Letters

DEF Response to Comment Request for Digital Asset Proceeds From Broker Transactions Second Notice published pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act (November 2024)

DEF Response to Request for Public Comment on Proposed Rule Regarding Financial Data Transparency Act Joint Data Standards (October 2024)

DEF Response to Comment Request for Digital Asset Proceeds From Broker Transactions (June 2024)

Response to FinCEN re. its NPRM "Proposal of Special Measure Regarding Convertible Virtual Currency Mixing, as a Class of Transactions of Primary Money Laundering Concern” (January 2024)

Response to CFPB re. Defining Larger Participants of a Market for General-Use Digital Consumer Payment Applications. (January 2024)

Response to IRS on the Proposed "Broker" Rulemaking (November 2023)

Response to Autorite des Marches Financiers (AMF) regarding its DeFi Paper (October 2023)

Response to Senate Finance Committee regarding the taxation of digital assets (September 2023)

Response to HMRC regarding “the taxation of DeFi involving the lending and staking of cryptoassets.” (June 2023)

Third Response to SEC’s Proposed "Exchange" Rulemaking (June 2023)

Response ACPR’s Discussion Paper:“‘Decentralised’ or ‘Disintermediated’Finance: What Regulatory Response? (June 2023)

Response to U.S. Treasury's Request for Comment on Digital Asset Innovation (August 2022)

Response to Abu Dhabi Global Market’s DeFi Discussion Paper (June 2022)

Second Response to SEC’s Proposed "Exchange" Rulemaking (June 2022)

Response to SEC's "Dealer" Rulemaking (May 2022)

First Response to SEC’s Proposed "Exchange" Rulemaking (April 2022)

Explainers

Research

Research & Explainers

Matt Bartlett's Democratized Finance

Future Majority's Voters Understanding of Cryptocurrency Part 1

Future Majority's Voters Understanding of Cryptocurrency Part 2

What is the Difference Between a Front End and a DeFi Protocol?

Tax Documents

Tax Documents

DEF 2022 Form 990

Amicus Briefs

Legal Filings & Amicus Briefs

Kentucky, Nebraska and 16 Other States & DEF v SEC (November 2024)

Opposition to Motion to Dismiss in Beba LLC and DeFi Education Fund v. Securities and Exchange Commission (October 2024)

Amicus Brief re. Davidson v. SEC (August 2024)

Amended Compliant in Beba LLC and DeFi Education Fund v. Securities and Exchange Commission (July 2024)

DEF's Amicus Brief in Support of Roman Storm's Motion to Dismiss the Indictment (April 2024)

Exhbit A

Beba LLC and DeFi Education Fund v. Securities and Exchange Commission (March 2024)

Amicus Brief re. SEC v. Kraken (February 2024)

Scheduling Order in DEF's Fight Against a Patent Troll (January 2024)

Order Granting Proceeding in DEF's Fight Against a Patent Troll (January 2024)

Amicus Brief re. Van Loon v. Department of Treasury (November 2023)

Amicus Brief re. Harper v. IRS (October 2023)

IPR Petition to US Patent & Trademark Office (September 2023)

Declaration from Hudson Jameson in Support of DEF's IPR Petition to US Patent & Trademark Office (September 2023)

Amicus Brief re. SEC v. Coinbase (August 2023)

Amicus Brief re. Coin Center v. Janet Yellen (June 2023)

Amicus Brief re. Joseph Van Loon v. Department of Treasury (April 2023)

Amicus Brief re. CFTC v. Ooki DAO (October 2022)

Amicus Brief re. CFTC v. Ooki DAO (November 2022)

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