#CryptoRoundTableRemarks ✅

Keywords from the roundtable – June 9, 2025

• Paul S. Atkins (Chairman of the SEC) emphasized that the philosophy of the event, called “DeFi and the American Spirit”, reflects values inherent to the decentralized financial movement: economic freedom, private property, and innovation. He highlighted the peer-to-peer nature of blockchains and how they redefine trust without intermediaries .

• The need for balanced and clear regulation that accompanies innovation was reiterated, especially in the face of emerging technologies like DeFi. Atkins seeks a policy that offers defined rules of the game, reversing years of uncertainty.

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🌐 2. Strategic trends detected via Binance Square

The Binance Square community focused its attention on:

• Tokenization of real-world assets (RWA): real estate, government bonds, and others, seeking to integrate greater liquidity into public chains—but with legal clarity and robust security measures .

• Additionally, it was discussed whether DeFi developers should enjoy certain protections (similar to open-source software) or be subject to responsibilities akin to those of financial intermediaries .

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⚖️ 3. Highlighted debates in regulation

• **Protection for DeFi devs?**

• Paul Atkins: “Engineers shouldn’t be held liable for how others use their code.”

• Hester Peirce: “Code is protected speech under the First Amendment.”

• Erik Voorhees: “Smart contracts are a step function improvement over human regulators.”



• Balance between innovation and regulatory compliance:

The need for intelligent regulation that does not stifle innovation, but rather fosters a safe, transparent, and trustworthy environment is reiterated .

• Tokenization + governance + interoperability:

Importance of establishing standards and frameworks that allow networks to connect, with decentralized oversight (compliance on-chain), clear governance, and real-time auditing .