100+ Crypto Orgs to Congress: Protect Devs, Not Punish Them

A pretty big letter dropped this week: 112 organizations signed on through the DeFi Education Fund, urging the Senate Banking and Ag Committees to prioritize developer protections.

The asks include:

→ treat blockchains as neutral infrastructure, not intermediaries → protect open-source developers and noncustodial frontends from liability → make it federal instead of leaving it to 50 different state regimes → build on what’s already in BRCA and Keep Your Coins

The U.S. share of open source crypto developers has fallen from 25% in 2021 to 18% in 2025. This kinda reflects policy uncertainty driving builders away.

The list of signers here are not just the DeFi protocols like Uniswap, Aave, and dYdX. You’ve also got infra builders like Aptos Labs, StarkWare, Decibel, Polygon, etc.