The DeFi Education Fund has led a rebuttal to Citadel Securities’ call for the SEC to bring DeFi platforms under securities laws if dealing in tokenized stocks.
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Jesse Coghlan is a Sydney-based journalist and joined Cointelegraph’s Asia-Pacific newsdesk as its deputy editor in 2022. He mainly covers court cases and government policy from around the world that focus on cryptocurrency and aims to make complex legal language accessible. He previously co-hosted and produced a podcast covering crypto news and reported on crime and civil unrest with his early work as a freelance reporter. Jesse has no crypto holdings.
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