Sam Kim
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Chief Legal Officer & Chief Operating Officer @lidofinance | Lido protocol | Lido Labs Foundation | ex-Coinbase, ex-Blockdaemon, ex-Microsoft | opinions my own
Joined October 2015
Today, the SEC’s Corp Fin division clarified that liquid staking services & LSTs are not considered securities. This long-awaited guidance removes key regulatory uncertainty and reflects years of advocacy and engagement by many in the industry. This is a big win for stakers.
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RT @milesjennings: 1/ Progress on crypto policy continues! The White House just released an excellent report and the SEC launched “Project….
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RT @RebeccaRettig1: 1/ Always jealous of the lawyers/policy folks that do monster threads, so going to try to 🧵 for the President's WG Repo….
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RT @chainlink: As part of Crypto Week, Chainlink is excited to launch Tokenized in America in partnership with @BlockchainAssn. This new i….
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Thanks to @TheDRC_ for their work on this with the industry. As they’ve noted, decentralization is central to an effective blockchain policy.
The industry has made it clear: effective blockchain policy must incentivize decentralization. DRC and 50 other leading stakeholders in the crypto industry just delivered a joint letter to @SpeakerJohnson, @RepJeffries, @LeaderJohnThune, and @SenSchumer in support of the CLARITY
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RT @VitalikButerin: Dual governance isn't perfect, but it solves important problems:. * Extra independent defense layer against the system….
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RT @LidoFinance: One year of Simple DVT 🎉. Using @Obol_Collective & @ssv_network, Simple DVT has enabled 300+ new Node Operators to run val….
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RT @fund_defi: DeFi Education Fund is thrilled that a bipartisan group of Senators has voted again in favor of cloture on the GENIUS Act. T….
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RT @milesjennings: As he showed today, Brian is deeply principled—exemplifying integrity and the courage to lead, qualities essential for t….
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RT @HouseAgGOP: Receiving bipartisan support, H.R. 3633, the CLARITY Act of 2025, has been reported favorably out of the Committee. Workin….
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RT @BlockchainAssn: 1/ Today, the House Financial Services and Agriculture Committees will markup the CLARITY Act – market structure legisl….
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RT @MTCoppel: 1/ Today @BlockchainAssn, along with @fund_defi, are sharing an amicus brief supporting the motion to dismiss Count II in the….
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RT @EleanorTerrett: 🚨NEW: In a notable display of unity, eight of the biggest crypto policy organizations in Washington D.C. have issued a….
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RT @lex_node: This could end up being crypto apocalypse. However, if Ripple wins the bidding war, that doesn't mean game over--there will b….
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RT @BlockchainAssn: 1/ The Senate has passed the motion to proceed to consideration of the GENIUS Act – a step toward clear, commonsense re….
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RT @katiebiber: 1/ Tomorrow is a big day for crypto: a bipartisan group of Senators have been hard at work writing sensible, clear legislat….
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