"They can regulate web domains and target companies, but they cannot ban math. Decentralized smart contracts live on-chain.
Real developers will keep building the permissionless solutions..."
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@ModulusZK becomes clearer by the day.
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Say goodbye to Uniswap as you know it.
The Senate's new CLARITY Act is a direct hit on DeFi, engineered to protect the banks.
They are outright banning passive stablecoin yield. Banks are terrified lawmakers with projections of a $6.6 trillion deposit flight to crypto, so Washington stepped in to kill your yield and protect the legacy system.
Even worse, the bill aims to classify anyone running a DeFi front-end as a financial intermediary.
Just hosting a web interface for a smart contract will suddenly require bank-level AML compliance and audits.
They are rushing to force this through by May before the midterm elections make the bill politically radioactive.
But there is a massive blind spot in their plan.
They can regulate web domains and target companies, but they cannot ban math. Decentralized smart contracts live on-chain.
Real developers will keep building the permissionless solutions the market demands, and DeFi will simply route around the damage.