PGP* for Crypto Briefings and Roundtable 2025
2025-03-25
Washington, United States
who it's for
crypto policy advisors, regulators, congressional staff, crypto legal counsel, token and stablecoin product managers, blockchain researchers, privacy and compliance officers
topics
stablecoin legislative frameworks; token taxonomy three-point test; digital commodities market structure; EIP-1559 burn mechanism; Section 1960 and Tornado Cash prosecutions; zero-knowledge proofs for sanctions checks; confidential transfers and view keys; privacy coins as cash equivalents; crypto confidence index and sentiment analysis; tokenized cultural artifacts and cross-chain anchoring
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Crypto Policy Insights | Robin Cook | 07m |
Calls for a concrete stablecoin bill, a market structure for nonsecurity digital commodities, and a U.S. digital securities market with specific progress… | ||
| Crypto Token Taxonomy | Miles Jennings | 12m |
Presents a practical token taxonomy with seven categories and a three‑point test to distinguish network tokens from company‑backed tokens: network openness… | ||
| Leadership Transition & Policy Updates | Miller Whitehouse-Levine, Amanda Tuminelli | 03m |
DeFi Education Fund announces a leadership change with one leader stepping down to join the board and Amanda Tuminelli taking the helm, while continuing… | ||
| Bitcoin Policy and Future Initiatives | Matthew Pines | 04m |
The institute scales from a blog to 10 full-time staff and plans a physical office with Pub Key this summer, aiming to influence policy on Bitcoin as a… | ||
| Cryptocurrency's Future with Honesty and Privacy | Blake Benthall | 05m |
Argues that mainstream adoption requires honest accounting and robust privacy, proposes free accounting software Fathom X to let businesses "flip the switch"… | ||
| Project Updates | Robert Rueter | 03m |
DARPA-funded applied research partners with Starling Lab (USC libraries and Stanford EE) to tokenize cultural artifacts and register tokens across several… | ||
| Crypto Confidence Index and Sentiment Analysis | Alex Chizhik | 03m |
A monthly Crypto Confidence Index paired with sentiment analysis compares crypto investors (indexed at 100%) to the general public and finds meaningful gaps in… | ||
| Confidential Stablecoins | Mike Orcutt, Leslie Chavkin, Andrew Omietanski, Sina Kian | 35m |
Panelists argue that the technical pieces already work: zero-knowledge proofs and view keys enable proofs (example: a passport NFC to ZK-proof flow) that hide… | ||
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