🔥 testimony from Dan Robinson “What crypto provides is an alternative system, one that gives us the efficiency of globally coordinated markets without sacrificing the competitive benefits of peer-to-peer trading.” “The United States can maintain its dominant position as

1/ The Presidential Working Group on Digital Assets last week released their long-awaited 180 Day Report — no less than a manifesto on how America can lead the global crypto revolution, with input from every major regulator. We Paradigm broke down some of the key takeaways:

We sent a letter this week to the Senate Banking Committee, in response to their draft of crypto market structure legislation. On the critical question of which tokens should be regulated as securities, the Senate's draft takes a very different approach from the CLARITY Act that

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Today, a coalition of 100+ signatories join DEF in sending a letter to Congress. Software developer protections are a non-negotiable in digital asset market structure legislation. This critical issue unites us — crypto and tech builders, investors, and advocates.

gm. Yesterday, Paradigm filed a comment with the SEC on how to approach tokenization and the possibility of on chain IPOs. There’s a lot of potential opportunity here for investors and companies, but it is important the SEC charts the course into tokenization well.

Introducing tempo A payments-first blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm

Excited to be involved with @Tempo from day one, helping shape blockchain infrastructure purpose-built for payments. The future is multi-chain: stablecoins will operate across diverse blockchain networks and Visa is enabling interoperability between chains and stablecoin brands.

Introducing @Tempo. At Stripe, we care about high-throughput, low-latency payments use cases. As the use of stablecoins (and crypto more broadly) grows across Stripe, Bridge, and Privy, we found that existing blockchains are not optimized for them. For example, it's valuable

These are strong principles; for the first time, I can see a path to bipartisan market structure legislation on crypto passing Senate. Also, Dems are smart to insist on requiring nomination, confirmation, and no arbitrary firings of CFTC & SEC Commissioners as part of a deal.

Happy Monday. We’re nearing the end of the third week of this government shutdown (likely running into November), but there are still comments to be filed. Today, I wanted to flag one we filed Friday with Solana Policy Institute & DeFi Education Fund on preventing illicit finance in crypto.

It's not anti-crypto to demand basic safeguards for bitcoin ATMs. Lay off the state AG's doing their jobs.

RIP to the GOAT, the Longworth Dunkin 😔🙏🏾

Excellent thought-leadership! Must read editorial by Blockchain Foundation Founder & Former Board Member Katie Biber & current Board Member Dominique. Substantive insights on issues around crypto ATMs👇

Struggling to digest another behemoth crypto draft bill? This time from Senate Ag? We got you fam, here’s five tweets that tell you everything you need to know about this bill and how it’s different from the House’s CLARITY Act. TLDR: this is basically the same as House Ag.

Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) on recent elections in NYC and Virginia: “Zohran Mamdani wouldn’t win a governor’s race in Virginia. Abigail Spanberger probably wouldn’t win the mayor’s office in New York. Maybe the lesson for Democrats is stop trying to decide what one figure

🎉 Join us Thursday for an evening of networking and innovation! We're hosting a reception to convene the hardworking Capitol Hill staff and D.C. policy community who are advancing America's technology leadership, especially those championing crypto legislative efforts. 📍

We're thrilled to share that Allie Page (Allie Page ) will be AIP's first Executive Director! Allie has extensive experience in policy operations, strategic planning, and coalition building, and will be critical in helping us action our mission of tech policy education. 🧵