Ethereum creates a public institution out of software, economic self-interest, and public verification. To elaborate: The record defines the assets. The assets give people a reason to preserve the record. Preserving the record preserves the value of the assets. So the system

DeFi protocols really need private access to Mythos before Anthropic gets social engineered by North Korea posing as Microsoft or some US megacorp that needs access/"lost their access key."

US-sanctioned ICC Judges advocating for a EU CBDC. The idea that this would solve any of their problems is yet another step in the EU's attempts to manufacture consent for the digital euro. First, our money is already directly issued by the European Central Bank. Turning that

Should we let bad actors dictate what tools are built? That's the inevitable result of punishing builders for what third parties do with their tools. Peter Van Valkenburgh puts it well in this clip: " You're basically giving the worst people in the world, the criminals and the

For months, their target was yields “equivalent” to interest-bearing bank accounts. Now it’s transaction-based rewards, loyalty incentives, and other consumer benefits tied to blockchains. That’s no narrow “fix.” That’s killing competition from new technologies. Enough already.

1/ The Senate Banking Committee noticed a markup for May 14 – a major step for digital asset policy in the US. I look forward to reviewing the full text. Now the job is to keep this moving – through Congress and to the President. It’s time to make this law. 🧵

Statement from our CEO Ji Kim on the Senate Banking Committee notice of a markup on the CLARITY Act:

Crypto is not leading the market right now. Semiconductors and other tech stocks clearly have stronger short-term momentum. 📈 But zoom out and the picture changes completely! 🔹 Bitcoin went from zero to a top-11 global asset in just 17 years 🔹 Ethereum went from zero to a

I think Ethereum stakeholders are underestimating how important it is for ETH's market valuation that the war on crypto developers, represented by SDNY's prosecution of Roman Storm, end.

This is precisely right, and simply a return to due process: "What is needed are severe AML and CTF reforms that stop the arbitrary penalties imposed on banks, and the reversal of banks as private policing institutions. Institute democratic processes for AML/CTF compliance.

very much this. To put the responsiblity of AML and KYC on banks and even notaries makes it impossible for them to do business, makes them refuse more and more clients, and causes many people to not have a bank unjustly. The same would happen if we force grocery stores to make

🚨 The banking cartel is in full panic mode. 🚨 While Americans were celebrating Mother’s Day with their families, the CEO of the American Bankers Association sent a frantic alert to every bank CEO in the country, demanding “immediate engagement” to lobby Senators and kill

I specifically requested the attendance of Mr. Nichols and other bank trade CEOs at the meetings we hosted back in February to resolve the stablecoin rewards/yield issue. They refused. I guess the White House was beneath them? In their defense, I wouldn’t want to have to defend

Ten years ago, Coin Center proposed a simple, nonpartisan idea: if you build non-custodial crypto tools, you should not need a license. That idea became the BRCA. After delays, the Senate is now very close. Get BRCA and CLARITY to the floor, then to the President’s desk.

📌CLARITY UPDATE: Final legislative text of the Clarity Act is expected to be released today and senators must submit any amendments before close of business tomorrow. It's time. Call your senator and tell them to pass the Clarity Act at (202)224-3121!

I’m so impressed that Elizabeth Warren stayed up all night to read the 300+ pages of the CLARITY Act and deliver an objective assessment of the bill’s merits and not just some knee-jerk reaction. This is what true public service looks like.

The Ethereum ecosystem continues to fire on all cylinders! 📈 Visa averages ~1,700 TPS. The Ethereum ecosystem is currently processing 6,088 TPS across the entire stack (L1 & L2s), 3-4x that of Visa, in real time, on permissionless rails. 🔹 #1 Lighter: 5,605 TPS 🔹 #2 Base:

As a former head of a crypto trade association, I have some advice for bank lobbyists: upgrade your technology – and your advocacy. Public debate on X is a superpower. It allows for solutions to complex problems to be widely scrutinized and vetted. It also communicates support

It's time to pass the CLARITY Act, to ensure US technology dominance for decades to come. 🇺🇸

I would urge the DeFi United participants (Aave, Arbitrum, Consensys.eth, Joseph Lubin, Mantle, Stani, ether.fi, Lido to contribute to Roman Storm's defense by donating ETH to JusticeDAO, which is a Wyoming-based DAO explicitly set up to defense