One of the main defenders of the United States of Decentralized Finance (Defi), Miller Whitehouse-Levine, is starting from her work as executive director of the Defi Education Fund, where she will be replaced by the group’s legal director, Amanda Tuminelli.
Whitehouse-Levine, a fixed element in the cryptographic circles of the United States, will remain at the organization’s board, according to a Thursday’s announcement, and a person familiar with his plans said he will take an unnoticed role that keeps him in the lobbying space of the industry.
“I have made the difficult decision to leave my current role in the Defi Education Fund to seek a new opportunity: a decision finally made it easy to know that Amanda’s leadership, passion and brilliance will lead to Def to new heights in the service of the Defi community,” he said in a Thursday statement on the transition of the group, which was established in 2021.
The defi corner of the digital asset sector saw a great victory in recent days as Congress has advanced towards the elimination of a recent Biden administration rule of the Internal Revenue Service that would have imposed the potentially ruined compliance demands on the Defi projects.
“For the first time in the history of Defi, there is a significant and bipartisan group of American policy and regulatory formulators who think proactively and constructively about sensible cryptographic legislation, regulatory frameworks and the way they fit technological innovation, and our mission in the Defi Education Fund has never been more important,” Tuminelli said in a statement.
