Solano Policy Institute Urges Senate to Protect Crypto Developers in CLARITY Act Debate
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Summary
The Solana Policy Institute is urging U.S. Senate leaders to protect open-source developers, validators, and infrastructure providers in the CLARITY Act debate. The organization warns that treating these entities as financial intermediaries simply because they write code or run networks would make operating crypto infrastructure in the United States significantly more difficult. The article highlights the high stakes of a technical-sounding policy debate that could have major implications for the crypto industry's ability to operate in the U.S.
Key quotes
· 2 pulledIf open-source developers, validators or infrastructure providers are treated like financial intermediaries simply because they write code or run networks, much of the crypto stack becomes harder to operate in the United States.
The debate may sound technical, but the stakes are easy to understand.
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