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Bipartisan legislation introduced earlier this week – titled the Crypto-Asset National Security Enhancement (CANSEE) Act – that seeks to regulate the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector has caused quite a stir. Cypto advocacy groups object to the bill, arguing that such an approach would stifle innovation in the United States.
Coin Center, for one, criticized the bill, calling it a messy, arbitrary and unconstitutional approach to DeFi.
CANSI: ‘Violation’ of the First Amendment
The bipartisan Crypto-Asset National Security Enhancement Act (CANSEE) bill aims to tackle money laundering violations in DeFi, but legal experts are skeptical. in a blog PostJerry Brito, CEO of the crypto think tank, criticized the bill introduced by Senators Reid, Rounds, Warner and Romney, saying it was “surprising” given the lack of input from industry stakeholders.
“While we appreciate the senators’ desire to combat the misuse of crypto protocols by criminal and enemy actors, unfortunately this bill would make the development of such protocols in the US and by US persons infeasible.” Worse yet, this bill would be unconstitutional legislation because it would clearly violate the First Amendment.
Brito explained that if the law is passed, it would increase penalties for those who “provide applications designed to facilitate transactions using digital asset protocols” as well as those who “ control digital asset protocols”, a factor that will be determined solely by the Secretary of the Treasury.
The Coin Center said the bill gives “virtually unlimited discretion” to the secretary.
Believing it “unconstitutional”, Brito said CANSEE could potentially crack down on developers, leaving them vulnerable to “prosecution for simply publishing software”, a violation of the First Amendment right to publish code.
decentralized in name only
Even though the main idea behind DeFi is a “decentralized infrastructure” with no central authority, not all protocols are as decentralized as they claim. To that extent, the Coin Center acknowledged that it understands the senators’ approach to prosecuting entities that facilitate money laundering and sanctions evasion by providing decentralized services “in name only.”
However, a complete ban on the publication of open-source code for decentralized crypto protocols and giving the secretary full discretion to grant permits to centralized protocols that may also be traditional financial institutions is “handing over the sphere of innovation to the rest of the world,” the advocacy group said.
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Bipartisan legislation introduced earlier this week – titled the Crypto-Asset National Security Enhancement (CANSEE) Act – that seeks to regulate the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector has caused quite a stir. Cypto advocacy groups object to the bill, arguing that such an approach would stifle innovation in the United States.
Coin Center, for one, criticized the bill, calling it a messy, arbitrary and unconstitutional approach to DeFi.
CANSI: ‘Violation’ of the First Amendment
The bipartisan Crypto-Asset National Security Enhancement Act (CANSEE) bill aims to tackle money laundering violations in DeFi, but legal experts are skeptical. in a blog PostJerry Brito, CEO of the crypto think tank, criticized the bill introduced by Senators Reid, Rounds, Warner and Romney, saying it was “surprising” given the lack of input from industry stakeholders.
“While we appreciate the senators’ desire to combat the misuse of crypto protocols by criminal and enemy actors, unfortunately this bill would make the development of such protocols in the US and by US persons infeasible.” Worse yet, this bill would be unconstitutional legislation because it would clearly violate the First Amendment.
Brito explained that if the law is passed, it would increase penalties for those who “provide applications designed to facilitate transactions using digital asset protocols” as well as those who “ control digital asset protocols”, a factor that will be determined solely by the Secretary of the Treasury.
The Coin Center said the bill gives “virtually unlimited discretion” to the secretary.
Believing it “unconstitutional”, Brito said CANSEE could potentially crack down on developers, leaving them vulnerable to “prosecution for simply publishing software”, a violation of the First Amendment right to publish code.
decentralized in name only
Even though the main idea behind DeFi is a “decentralized infrastructure” with no central authority, not all protocols are as decentralized as they claim. To that extent, the Coin Center acknowledged that it understands the senators’ approach to prosecuting entities that facilitate money laundering and sanctions evasion by providing decentralized services “in name only.”
However, a complete ban on the publication of open-source code for decentralized crypto protocols and giving the secretary full discretion to grant permits to centralized protocols that may also be traditional financial institutions is “handing over the sphere of innovation to the rest of the world,” the advocacy group said.
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