{"id":4681,"date":"2025-08-27T09:16:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/bitcoin-and-crypto-advocates-warn-congress-protect-developers-or-lose-industry-support\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:16:27","slug":"bitcoin-and-crypto-advocates-warn-congress-protect-developers-or-lose-industry-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/bitcoin-and-crypto-advocates-warn-congress-protect-developers-or-lose-industry-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin and Crypto Advocates Warn Congress: Protect Developers or Lose Industry Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

Bitcoin and Crypto Advocates Warn Congress: Protect Developers or Lose Industry Support<\/a><\/p>\n

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The DeFi Education Fund has penned a letter to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee with support from over 110 crypto builders, investors and advocates urging Congress to \u201cprovide robust, nationwide protections for software developers and noncustodial service providers in market structure legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter, which has been signed by the Bitcoin Policy Institute, the Blockchain Association and the Digital Chamber to name a few of the signatories, states that crypto market structure legislation must protect developers if the broader industry is to support it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout such protections, we cannot support a market structure bill,\u201d reads the letter.<\/p>\n

The letter draws a line between the regulatory framework that exists for the \u201ctraditional, intermediated financial world\u201d and the world of open-source development, which requires protections for developers so as to not force them into \u201cunworkable regulatory categories.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the United States is to fulfill President Trump\u2019s vision of becoming the \u201ccrypto capital of the world<\/a>,\u201d states the letter, it must continue to welcome cutting-edge software development in the digital space as it has since the earliest days of the internet.<\/p>\n

According to the letter, the total share of open source developers based in the United States dropped from 25% in 2021 to 18% in 2025, which is attributed to a \u201clack of regulatory clarity for software development.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter expresses gratitude for both the House and the Senate having included language from both the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA)<\/a> and the Keep Your Coins Act<\/a> that protects developers of noncustodial crypto software in their respective drafts of the CLARITY Act.<\/p>\n

It stressed that it\u2019s imperative that these protections be kept in the bill and that \u201cthese protections must make explicit that no individual or entity is subject to regulation solely for engaging in activities that are core to creating, developing, publishing, and maintaining blockchain networks, nor for enabling users to access such networks via software interfaces while maintaining custody of their own funds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, the letter points out that protecting software developers is a bipartisan issue, highlighting the fact that a bipartisan supermajority of 294 members of the House of Representatives voted in favor of the CLARITY Act<\/a>, and urges the Senate to improve upon developer protections in its draft of the bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This post Bitcoin and Crypto Advocates Warn Congress: Protect Developers or Lose Industry Support<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Frank Corva<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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