Why writing open-source code is suddenly an existential risk, and the five-page bill designed to fix it

Two senators have introduced a short bill with an unusually big ambition: to stop US law from treating people who write and publish blockchain software as if they were running a shadow payments company. The proposal, titled the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act of 2026, aims to clarify that “non-controlling” developers and infrastructure providers (i.e., those […]