Today in crypto, a crypto group petitioned the White House to drop charges against crypto devs, including Tornado Cash’s Roman Storm, Arizona’s House passed two crypto reserve bills, and Coinbase launched a Bitcoin Yield Fund for institutional investors.Crypto group asks Trump to end prosecution of crypto devsThe DeFi Education Fund has led an April 28 petition to White House crypto czar David Sacks asking to end what it claimed was the “lawless prosecution” of open-source software developers, including Roman Storm, a creator of the crypto mixing service Tornado Cash.The group urged President Donald Trump “to take immediate action to discontinue the Biden-era Department of Justice's lawless campaign to criminalize open-source software development.” They said that in Storm’s case, who was charged in August 2023 with helping launder over $1 billion in crypto through Tornado Cash, the Department of Justice is attempting to hold software developers criminally liable for how others use their code, which is “not only absurd in principle, but it sets a precedent that potentially chills all crypto development in the United States.”Source: DeFi Education FundThe petition has so far attracted over 250 signatures from industry executives and developers.Meanwhile, lawyers for executives of the crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, charged
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