Public policy analysis
Weekly memos and special reports on digital asset policy, financial privacy, and the Zcash ecosystem. Open to everyone.
Week of October 12, 2026
BIS research supports privacy in digital payments; House Financial Services Committee leadership contest kicks off; and White House digital assets lead departs without successor.
Read memo →Week of October 5, 2026
CFTC releases ANPRM on crypto asset transactions and crypto asset markets; FinCEN withdraws mixing and unhosted wallet proposals; and Fairshake PAC names 32 House incumbents for support.
Read memo →Week of September 28, 2026
SEC proposes crypto-asset custody rule; Senate introduces digital asset tax legislation; SEC and CFTC staff issue digital asset-related guidance; Illinois postpones digital asset tax; Crypto critic seeks top HFSC Dem role; and NY DFS and WY DOB enter into MoU to streamline digital asset licensing, exams, information sharing, and enforcement.
Read memo →Week of September 21, 2026
Outgoing SEC Commissioner Peirce discusses minimizing data collection and leveraging privacy-preserving technologies to support compliance.
Read memo →Week of September 14, 2026
CLARITY Act procedural vote fails; House Ways and Means Committee advances digital asset tax legislation; and CFTC staff issue no-action letter on passive software providers of access to CFTC-regulated derivatives offered by registered entities.
Read memo →Week of September 7, 2026
Republican Senators release updated CLARITY Act draft days ahead of the September 15 cloture vote.
Read memo →Week of August 31, 2026
August monthly update on PGPZ; G20 members support “clear pathways” for digital asset innovation; and National Sheriffs’ Association withdraws opposition to the CLARITY Act.
Read memo →Week of August 24, 2026
Blockchain Association and CCI challenge Illinois Digital Asset tax; Stand with Crypto releases list of congressional races it is supporting in the November midterm elections; and SEC takes a step towards introducing digital asset custody rulemaking.
Read memo →Week of August 17, 2026
CFTC IAC Meeting and potential CFTC digital assets rulemaking; SEC releases Regulation Crypto Assets, requesting industry feedback
Read memo →Week of August 10, 2026
CFTC IAC Meeting; Bank lobbying may slow CLARITY Act; The White House plans to convene digital asset and prediction markets
Read memo →Week of August 3, 2026
CLARITY Act discussions to resume in September; Midterm elections
Read memo →Week of July 27, 2026
PGPZ July Monthly Update; Statements on state activity; PGPZ CLARITY Act Coalition Letter; CLARITY Act Updates
Read memo →Week of July 20, 2026
CLARITY Act draft released, ethics provisions challenged, and more
Read memo →Week of July 13, 2026
PGPZ Community tools, CLARITY Act stalled, and tokenized finance coordination
Read memo →Week of July 6, 2026
Fed NPRM on BSA Modernization; Sen. Wyden urges BRCA inclusion in CLARITY Act; SEC signals forthcoming NPRMs on crypto.
Read memo →Week of June 29, 2026
PGPZ Progress Update; CLARITY Act Talks and Prospects
Read memo →Week of June 22, 2026
CBDC prohibition until 2030; Mining and Staking Tax Deferral; Texas makes 180-degree turn on data center and mining policy
Read memo →Week of June 15, 2026
FinCEN AML rulemaking, Illinois crypto tax, and stablecoin customer-identification requirements
Read memo →Week of June 8, 2026
The House Ways and Means Committee held a full-committee hearing on digital-asset taxation, advancing discussion drafts on de minimis relief, stablecoins, mining and staking rewards, routine network fees, and related parity provisions. DCG organized a DC Fly-in with a focus on financial privacy. The week also kept exchange and custody access for privacy assets in focus under EU AMLR and MiCA.
Read memo →July 24, 2026
This week, PGPZ submitted two Statements for the Record following recent hearings before the House Financial Services Committee.
Read report →June 25, 2026
On April 10, 2026, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) released for public comment their joint Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) implementing the GENIUS Act for Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuers (PPSIs). The comment period closed on June 9, 2026.
Read report →H1 2026 U.S. Policy Report
The first half of 2026 moved U.S. digital asset policy from agenda-setting into implementation. The direction is more constructive for digital assets, but the issues most important to Zcash - AML, sanctions, banking access, and intermediary risk - remain unresolved.
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