Government affairs

In this letter to the UK's HM Treasury, we comment on important questions such as whether validation activities should be regulated, what are the challenges of regulating DeFi, and whether industry best practices should be formalised into regulation.

Just as the web today is a product of the contributions from many people working on a broad computer programming spectrum, so too is Ethereum a product of the disparate work of thousands of people working on different ideas.

FSB’s proposed global standards for crypto activities need to be adapted to make them suitable for DeFi.

In this response to the UK tax authority's Call to Evidence, we argue that we need to create clear tax rules for staking and other DeFi activities, rather than extending the current rules for securities lending to DeFi activities.

In this letter to the U.S. Department of Treasury, we discuss how the programmable blockchain ecosystem is innovating to mitigate financial crime risks pertaining to digital assets, specifically the theft of private keys through phishing, malicious smart contracts, and compromised front-end user interfaces.

In this letter to the U.S. Department of Treasury, we outline the steps we are taking for the responsible development of digital assets as well how risks can be mitigated. We comment on the facilitation of further blockchain network adoption and legislative and regulatory initiatives relevant to this comment.