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@apublicstate
PSA is a builder-centric movement focused on advocacy and best practices for decentralized communities through a number of avenues, each pursued in parallel.




Thanks to @RepFrenchHill, @CongressmanGT, @RepBryanSteil & @RepDustyJohnson and their staff for advancing a regulatory framework for digital assets in the United States. The release of the market structure discussion draft marks an important milestone, and we commend their work to bring clarity and balance to this novel and evolving policy space! We reviewed the discussion draft alongside a community of aligned teams, developers, operators, and lawyers, and we aggregated a list of constructive issues and recommendations to help strengthen and clarify elements of the discussion draft ahead of formal introduction and any potential markup. We submitted these comments to staff on May 9th. Thanks to everyone who contributed and particularly to @SH_Brennan for helping to lead the process. For the full list of recommendations, see below. Weโre particularly encouraged to see several control-based decentralization principles, similar to those from our Designing Policy for a Flourishing Blockchain Industry report, reflected in the draft. And to see the discussion draft incentivizes decentralization (aka network maturity), which will be critical in enabling a flourishing ecosystem of digital infrastructure, applications, and businesses that provide significant autonomy and economic opportunity to users. Please reach out to us if you have any feedback on our recommendations or want to contribute to our work in future!


Cortez Masto also references a statement for the record from the American Bankers Association. That 4-page document just dropped into my inbox, so here it is: aba.com/-/media/documeโฆ

The FDIC is attempting to hide Operation Chokepoint 2.0 and the FDIC must preserve all documents related to digital assets immediately. Tim Scott and I will get to the bottom of it.

๐จ๐จ๐จPrivate antitrust lawsuits have finally arrived in crypto. @BiTGlobalTrust sues @coinbase alleging violations of Section 2 of the Sherman Act among other competition-related claims. In short, Coinbase is (allegedly) unlawfully killing a competitor wrapped BTC product by kicking it off Coinbase's exchange in favor of Coinbase's own wrapped BTC to achieve and/or maintain a monopoly. The crux of the case: "Like all the centralized tech giants before it, Coinbase gives lip service to the innovation of a decentralized world. But in the case of wrapped Bitcoin, Coinbase viewed it as just another cash grab. It saw a competitor, wBTC, that had something it wanted: an innovative product that released value inherent in Bitcoin and let users utilize that value in bold new ways. And following the playbook of its predecessors, Coinbase decided it would take what it wanted. Once the value in wBTC had been demonstrated, Coinbase changed the rules, delisting wBTC from its platform so that it could no longer be traded on the Coinbase platformโand it did so shortly after launching its own knock-off clone called cbBTC." Antitrust nerds rejoice!