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Onchain: Biden’s executive order, crypto war and DeFi loses a legend

March 10, 2022
Luke at CoinJar
AuthorLuke at CoinJar
Onchain: Biden’s executive order, crypto war and DeFi loses a legend

Story One

Biden signs executive order on crypto

Joe Biden has just signed a long-awaited . A wide-ranging document, the order discusses the creation of a digital dollar, regulation of crypto exchanges and the role of crypto in money laundering, ransomware and, yes, evading sanctions.

However, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said that the purpose of the executive order is to . In short, an acknowledgment that crypto is here (16% of adults, or 40 million people, own some crypto according to the government), it isn’t going anywhere and the government’s role is to enable responsible actors to thrive while protecting consumers.

For now the primary impact of the order is to instruct various government agencies to coordinate their efforts and create a single framework for dealing with cryptoassets. With that said, the order was notably free of specific demands or strong positions; for the regulation averse crypto-industry, that’s gotta be a win.

Story Two

Crypto becomes a tool of war

A morbidly fascinating subplot of the despicable war in Ukraine has been crypto’s role on both sides of the conflict.

In Russia, subject to the most extreme financial sanctions ever leveraged against a foreign power, all eyes are on crypto’s role as a sanctions-buster in the making. While stories of Russian flight to Bitcoin have so far , both Iran and North Korea offer case studies in financially isolated countries . If the pressure is kept up, Russia and its oligarchs may follow suit.

For Ukraine, crypto’s role has been decidedly more hands on. When the Ukraine government began soliciting donations in BTC, ETH and USDT through their , everyone’s first assumption was that it had been hacked by the Russians. However, proof of ownership was soon provided and the crypto community has since sent through US$60 million, which is being used to buy non-lethal aid like . While a planned airdrop to those who’d donated was , the government did open up a DOGE wallet, which was not something I expected from a sovereign state in the year 2022.

For more on the strange and unsettling implications of it all, check out .

Overheard

People talking about BTC losing X level and then it’s lights out… While the gas prices are so high the lights may actually go out for real.

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Story Three

DeFi icon Andre Cronje abandons the space

In DeFi circles, Andre Cronje is a proper legend. He created yield farming heavy hitter Yearn.fi () and smart contract auditing protocol Keep3r and was instrumental in building Ethereum alternative Fantom (also ), Sushiswap, Cream, Solidly, Multichain and many, many more. DeFi as both a technology and culture would not be where it is today without his talents, passion and rigorously ethical approach.

So when his long-time collaborator Anton Nell posted a tweet last Sunday saying that he and Cronje were and shutting down all the projects they’d been running, it was a body blow for an already beleaguered space. (They didn’t give a reason, but it’s long been known that Cronje struggled with DeFi’s rampant scams, speculative greed and general trollishness).

While it’s likely that the services they’d built and maintained will continue under new management, it’s hard not to see in their departure the end of DeFi’s first phase. The duo helped shepherd DeFi into the mainstream – who will emerge to guide it through the ever-growing raft of technological and regulatory headwinds coming its way?

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