A coalition of crypto advocacy groups has thrown its weight behind a federal lawsuit challenging the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) efforts to prosecute open-source software developers under money transmission laws.
Crypto investment firm Paradigm, alongside the DeFi Education Fund, Blockchain Association, Crypto Council for Innovation and others, filed an amicus brief on Monday in support of Michael Lewellen in the case of Lewellen v. Bondi. Lewellen is a developer who built a non-custodial DeFi protocol and plans to release it publicly.
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