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The crypto lobby has strong words for a market structure bill that lacks key protections for crypto devs against criminal liability.

Stacy Jones
August 27, 2025

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The crypto lobby has come together in a big way against the Senate Banking Committee’s latest markup of the Senate’s market structure bill for lacking key protections for software developers.

A total of 114 parties signed the letter, including Andreessen Horowitz, Coinbase, DCG, Grayscale, Kraken, Paradigm, Solana Labs, and Uniswap Labs. Numerous lobbying groups endorsed the letter, which was coordinated by the DeFi Education Fund, including the Chamber of Progress—a mainstream tech lobbying group funded in part by Amazon, Apple, Google, and Uber.

“The leaders of the crypto industry are speaking with one voice on a fundamental principle: public blockchains are neutral infrastructure just like the internet, roads, or bridges,” Miller Whitehouse-Levine, CEO of the Solana Policy Institute, another co-signer of the letter, said in a a statement shared with Decrypt.

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