The Defi Education Fund has written a letter to the Banking Committee of the United States Senate with the support of more than 110 cryptographic constructors, investors and defenders of urging Congress to “provide solid protections already national level for software developers and non -custodial service providers in market structure legislation.”
The letter, which has been signed by the Bitcoin Policy Institute, the Blockchain Association and the Digital Chamber, to appoint some of the signatories, establishes that crypto market structure legislation must protect developers if the industry in general supports it.
“Without such protections, we cannot support a market structure invoice,” says the letter.
The letter draws a line between the regulatory framework that exists for the “traditional and intermediate financial world” and the world of open source development, which requires protections for developers so as not to force them to “involuntary regulatory categories.”
If the United States must comply with President Trump’s vision of becoming the “world capital of cryptography,” says the letter, must continue to welcome the development of avant -garde software in the digital space as it has done since the first days of the Internet.
According to the letter, the total participation of open source developers based in the United States fell from 25% in 2021 to 18% in 2025, which is attributed to a “lack of regulatory clarity for software development.”
The letter expresses gratitude for both the Chamber and for the Senate that included the language of both the Blockchain (BRCA) regulatory law and of the Keep Your Coins law that protects the developers of the non -custodial cryptographic software in their respective drafts of the clarity law.
He stressed that it is imperative that these protections are maintained in the bill and that “these protections must make explicit that no individual or entity is subject to regulation only to participate in activities that are central to create, develop, publish and maintain block chain networks, or to allow users to access such networks through software interfaces while maintaining custody of their own funds.”
Finally, the letter indicates that protecting software developers is a bipartisan issue, highlighting the fact that a bipartisan supermay of 294 members of the House of Representatives voted in favor of the law of clarity, and urges the Senate to improve the protections of developers in their draft law.
