2026-01-20 04:23:52

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee signals shift on crypto developer protections—the proposed amendments to the market structure bill could strip safeguards for blockchain developers. The move reflects ongoing tensions between regulatory oversight and innovation support in the digital asset space. Industry observers note this development may reshape how protocol teams and development studios navigate compliance requirements. The committee's position comes amid broader Capitol Hill debates over cryptocurrency regulation and its intersection with software freedom and technological progress.

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ZKSherlock

· 10h ago

actually, stripping dev protections is exactly how you end up with zero-knowledge systems designed by compliance lawyers instead of cryptographers... which is to say, completely broken ones. has anyone even *asked* what the trust assumptions are here? because from where i'm sitting, this just looks like pushing computational overhead onto devs who can't afford it anyway

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TopBuyerForever

· 14h ago

Here comes another attempt to cut developers' benefits? These American lawmakers are really outrageous. Shouldn't they be protecting innovation? Why are they cutting protections instead?

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BearMarketSurvivor

· 14h ago

Here we go again, regulators are up to something... This time they’re directly cutting developer protections? That’s ridiculous, is this how innovation dies?

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AlwaysMissingTops

· 14h ago

Here we go again, those folks in the US are trying to target developers... Are they really about to cut off our way out this time?

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MEVictim

· 14h ago

Here comes another attack on developers? That group in Congress is really something else—saying they support innovation while engaging in this kind of scheme.

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notSatoshi1971

· 14h ago

Coming back with this again? Developer protection is gone just like that, I really can't hold it anymore.

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PhantomMiner

· 14h ago

Are they coming again to harvest developers' newbies? Can't regulatory authorities just let us focus on coding peacefully?

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LayerZeroHero

· 14h ago

It has been proven that regulatory authorities are once again shrinking the "safe harbor" provisions. The developer protection clauses have been cut, and what does this mean? The legal risks of the protocol architecture directly increase.

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