New US Crypto Group AIP joined the Crowded Field, target Policymaker Education education
With more than a dozen US crypto policy groups that compress the offices of Washington’s legislators and regulators, launching another new organization on Tuesday – the American Innovation Project – It can leave it with a swift battle to draw attention. But AIP is pursuing the niche of educational events for those who make crypto policies.
Since the group sets up as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) And not a lobbying organization, the effort is not easier for US lawmakers Interact with and travel to its eventsand donors (Who can provide crypto assets) may get some tax benefits.
The new group arrives in a field of advocacy full of names such as the Digital Chamber, Blockchain Association, Crypto Council for Innovation, Defi Education Fund, Solana Policy Institute and the well -funded new entry supported by Ripple: The National CryptoCurrency Association. But AIP will focus on “policy roundtables, change changes, workshops and training,” according to its website.
The opening of the API event was a summit this week at the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on August 21, which was dwelling at Wyoming blockchain symposium.
The new nonprofit has been backed with cash from the Crypto Venture Capital Firm Digital Currency Group and through the Cedar Innovation Foundation, a crypto industry that is dark currency whose funds are anonymous. Other supporters include Coinbase, Kraken, Andreessen Horowitz, National Cryptocurrency Association, Paradigm, Solana Policy Institute, Stand with Crypto and Uniswap Labs, according to the organization.
“The American Innovation Project offers a nonpartisan forum where lawmakers, changes, and entrepreneurs can cooperate with thoughtful, looking for discussions and solutions,” Mark Murphy, President of the DCG, said in a statement.
Its board was led by Kristin Smith, the recently left behind the Blockchain Association who is now president at the Solana Policy Institute. Other members of the Board came from those organizations and DCG, paradigm and Coinbase.
“Our mission is simple, but urgent: we must equip the American leaders with the knowledge, context, and tools they need as they consider the timely policies and regulations that meet the moment and account for a rapid emerging technological scene,” Smith said in a statement.
Many industrial lobbying weapons are closely engaged in influencing the emerging crypto policies from Congress and the federal regulatorsPresident Donald Trump supported him as he sought to secure the US as the leading hub for the Global Digital Assets activity.
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