Keynote: Glass Houses and Tornados by Peter Van Valkenburgh | Devcon SEA

Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 AM

The Tornado Cash sanctions and criminal prosecutions have challenged longstanding assumptions within crypto about the limits of money transmission licensing, money laundering statutes, and sanctions laws. They've also revealed a longstanding assumption from some in policy and law enforcement circles: that blockchains have always been and must remain transparent. Neither assumption has served us well and the time has come for legal certainty. This talk is about how we get there. Speaker(s): Peter Van Valkenburgh Skill level: Intermediate Track: Cypherpunk & PrivacyCypherpunk & Privacy Keywords: Legal, Government, Regulation Follow us: https://x.com/EFDevcon/ , https://x.com/ethereum/, https://warpcast.com/devcon Learn more about devcon: https://www.devcon.org/ Learn more about ethereum: https://ethereum.org/ Visit the https://archive.devcon.org/ to gain access to the entire library of Devcon talks with the ease of filtering, playlists, personalized suggestions, decentralized access on Swarm, IPFS and more. Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Devcon SEA was held in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov 12 - Nov 15, 2024. Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/