Spot on from Ameen Soleimani. We (Predicate) literally co-authored a report on the policy and legal implication of inclusion lists with Proof of Stake Alliance (POSA) and discussed how something like this is a bad idea. And then we gave a talk on these same points at the Blockchain Association Summit last

I am once again asking all of us to think about the entire end-to-end attack path and not over-fixate on any one edge in that graph without understanding the entire graph traversal that we are trying to disrupt.

Fault tolerance Attack resistance Collusion resistance

A federal appeals court upheld a $92M FCC fine against T-Mobile & Sprint for selling customer location data without consent. The telcos claimed they didn’t break the law and that location data isn’t sensitive 🤨 Read more: bit.ly/468RMxJ

Today we launched the Shielded Aid Initiative. Our mission: help humanitarian organizations design programs that protect recipients from surveillance, exploitation, and harm using Zcash’s privacy-preserving technology.

This is what a united front looks like. If there is one thing we can all agree on, it’s protecting developers from being misclassified and forced into regulatory categories meant for traditional financial intermediaries. Very proud to stand 100+ strong in asking Congress to

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what is money? commodity? credit? does it require a state? is bitcoin money? what's the difference between currency and payments? I've been digging into this question. here's what I've read so far and my notes: nehanarula.org/2025/08/28/rea…. feedback welcome!

The amount of ilicit funds being washed through TradFi is horrific Major narrative violation. Going onchain I'd an upgrade.

notwithstanding crypto's bad rap on illicit finance, as Michael Mosier points out ⬇️, the volume of illicit activity has dropped 25% and reps less than .5% of all crypto volume. as we work towards market structure, facts are critical to ensuring properly tailored natsec provisions.

The new market structure draft from Senate Banking has the best developer protections language we have seen to date. Still digging into the rest of the bill, but this is worth celebrating immediately. Could not be more thrilled to see U.S. Senate Banking Committee GOP include an amendment to Section

This change is what DeFi Education Fund has been advocating for for. With this change, devs don't need to fear criminal prosecution based on inaccurate allegations that they are operating an unlicensed money transmitting business even when they do not have custody or control over user

In addition, the SBC's Title V Protections for Software Developers and Software Innovation, and Section 501 "Protecting Software Developers" recognizes that a developer should not be obligated to comply with regulations meant for traditional financial institutions on the basis of

Great Firewall Export: A new investigation by @Amnesty and partners, reveals Geedge Networks, a Chinese company, which is commercialized the tech behind China's notorious "Great Firewall". Geedge surveillance and censorship products found used in Pakistan, Myanmar, and more.

📢We're excited to share that the DC Privacy Summit is returning to Washington on October 16! This year's day-long event explores the idea that in many cases, privacy is security projectglitch.xyz/p/announcing-t…

This article may be the first time we’ve seen a specific example of sanctions evasion via mBridge: China is ditching the dollar, fast economist.com/china/2025/09/…

I’m watching this carefully - as everyone reflects on a relatively quiet US regulatory environment, we can’t forget the EU. amf-france.org/en/news-public…

Three years ago on this day Mahsa Jina Amini was murdered by the Iranian regime for the “crime” of being a free woman. But instead of silencing her, they created a movement, Woman, Life, Freedom, that’s spreading like fire. The courage of Iranian women and men standing up to

Counter-digital media literacy is the skill of turning off, slowing down, postponing response, choosing deep reading over scrolling, resisting digital nudges, and building habits of sustained attention and critical thinking. It’s an immune system for the mind in a digital age.

“Mahsa has not died; she lives in every defiant glance, in every image that breaks censorship, in every cry demanding freedom. She breathes in the eyes of the girls who have let their hair fly in the wind,” he said.