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, data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cdn.sanity.io/files/dgybcd83/production/746cd2adccea9113d53484b7c0a9c4a53f4add7d.pdf” rel=”https://cdn.sanity.io/files/dgybcd83/production/746cd2adccea9113d53484b7c0a9c4a53f4add7d.pdf” target=”https://cdn.sanity.io/files/dgybcd83/production/746cd2adccea9113d53484b7c0a9c4a53f4add7d.pdf” title=”https://cdn.sanity.io/files/dgybcd83/production/746cd2adccea9113d53484b7c0a9c4a53f4add7d.pdf”>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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