On March 11, 2025, under the auspices of the Congressional Review Act (CRA), the U.S. House of Representatives approved a joint resolution (H.J. Res. 25) officially disapproving of recently finalized ...

The European Union’s new crypto tax reporting regime under DAC8 is intentionally focused on enforceable targets, leaving decentralized finance (DeFi) outside its scope for now. Colby Mangels, a former ...

On April 10, 2025, President Trump signed into law a measure 1 that repeals the final regulations relating primarily to persons who are front-end service providers that operate decentralized finance ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua D. Smeltzer is a Texas-based attorney who covers tax and digital assets. My previous article provided a summary of the DeFi ...

The new IRS rules classifying DeFi protocols as brokers have triggered a swift backlash in the crypto industry, with calls for Congress to overturn the rules. The final regulations classifying several ...

Final regulations on informational reporting obligations for custodial brokers were published in the Federal Register on July 9, 2024 with an ominous note that the information reporting requirements ...

Citadel Securities is pushing the SEC to apply full exchange and broker-dealer requirements to DeFi protocols, rejecting calls for lighter rules for tokenized trading platforms. Regulators Face ...

Regulations are not the enemy of Web3 innovation. Clear, risk-based frameworks can unlock DeFi’s potential while protecting users. Web3 needs a clear regulatory system that addresses innovation ...

The House of Representatives passed a resolution to repeal the regulations that created reporting requirements for trading front-end service providers that work directly with users on digital asset ...

SEC Crypto Task Force receives submissions addressing self-custody rights and DeFi rules in tokenized markets.

Why were derivatives difficult to build in DeFi? Learn how scalability, liquidity fragmentation, and oracle risks ...

DeFi has evolved from 2020’s yield chaos into real financial infrastructure. Here’s how stablecoins, RWAs, and institutions ...