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Extremely excited to announce World of Apps ⌐◨-◨ Thursday during Ethereum NYC week Application Centrism Massive thank you to @nounsdao for believing in this event, and happy 4th birthday to Nouns Hope to see you next week

A key difference between CLARITY and Senate market structure draft: A centralized token with no material function has a better chance of qualifying for non-security treatment under the ancillary asset framework than a decentralized network like Ethereum, Cosmos, etc.

*** EF MATCHING ALL DONATIONS TO ROMAN STORM *** In the 90s, it started with cypherpunks rallying behind privacy software like PGP and ended with a court ruling that code is free speech under the First Amendment. This set a legal precedent, giving us a freer world with private communication We can do the same for the internet of value. How do we want our legal impact to end? It starts with supporting Roman Storm and the Tornado Cash team

Privacy is normal, and writing code is not a crime.

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Coin Center’s Seven Takeaways from the Storm Verdict: ▪️ 1. The sole conviction—unlicensed money transmission (18 U.S.C. § 1960)—turns mainly on legal/regulatory interpretation (“does this count as money transmission?”), not jury fact-finding. ▪️ 2. The court, at the motion-to-dismiss stage, discounted FinCEN’s stated guidance on what counts as “money transmission” in crypto and treated the category as broader than “control of customer funds.” ▪️ 3. With “money transmission” defined that broadly, the jury’s room to decide facts was narrow; the court’s interpretation largely dictated the outcome. ▪️ 4. DOJ’s prior “end regulation by prosecution” memo didn’t fully resolve §1960 issues left things open for continued prosecution; the DOJ dropped the failure-to-register theory but not the “knowingly transmitting criminal funds” theory. Coin Center’s view: both hinge on “transmitting” and are improper against developers excluded by FinCEN guidance. ▪️ 5. The BRCA (Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act), now attached to CLARITY and passed by the House, would confirm that non-controlling developers aren’t money transmitters. It can’t help Roman retroactively, but the Senate should pass it in upcoming market-structure debates. ▪️ 6. Coin Center fellow Michael Lewellen is suing DOJ for a declaration that publishing/maintaining his software isn’t unlicensed money transmission. Coin Center will continue supporting this effort to correct the legal interpretation. ▪️ 7. Coin Center is sorry Roman faces sentencing on a theory that contradicts the regulator’s guidance. He should appeal the denial of his motion to dismiss; Coin Center will assist however possible.