Description: DeFi Education Fund is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that educates policymakers, conducts research, and advocates for regulatory clarity and policies that enable decentralized finance (DeFi). Its mission is to protect the rights of developers, users, and projects to build open financial infrastructure while explaining DeFi’s technical features and public-policy implications to lawmakers and regulators. Type: Non-profit (education and advocacy organization; operates a 501(c)(3) foundation arm) Policies: Promotes DeFi-specific regulatory clarity and safe-harbor frameworks, narrower definitions of intermediaries/brokers, legal certainty for noncustodial protocols, balanced AML/CFT and consumer-protection approaches for crypto, developer and user protection, and international coordination of digital-asset rules. Funding: Primarily funded by donations and grants from the DeFi and broader crypto industry, individual donors, and philanthropic grants; accepts both fiat and cryptocurrency contributions. Affiliates: Notable affiliated individuals and collaborators include Executive Director Amanda Tuminelli and policy contributors such as Jake Chervinsky; collaborates with DeFi projects, industry investors and advocacy partners (e.g., a16z Crypto and other sector stakeholders).
