Amanda Tuminelli (@amandatums) / X

Amanda Tuminelli

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Amanda Tuminelli

@amandatums

CEO + CLO at DeFi Education Fund @fund_defi.

New York, NY

Joined March 2011

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Amanda Tuminelli
@amandatums
Mar 25, 2024
Today, we @fund_defi sued the SEC. It has everything to do with airdrops + stopping the SEC’s regulation by enforcement crusade against our industry. 🧵
DeFi Education Fund
@fund_defi
Mar 25, 2024
🚨Today, DEF and @BebaCollection sued the SEC🚨 defieducationfund.org/_files/ugd/84b… The crypto industry is facing an existential threat from an overzealous regulator who is abusing its power by targeting our industry through unending aggressive enforcement actions. It’s time for the
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Amanda Tuminelli
@amandatums
Apr 8, 2025
MAJOR update re DOJ and prosecution of digital assets - "the Department will stop participating in regulation by prosecution in this space." This memo from the Deputy AG does a few important things, including making it clear the DOJ is NOT going after exchanges and wallets for
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Amanda Tuminelli
@amandatums
Apr 5, 2024
Today we @fund_defi are proud to submit an amicus brief in US v. Storm, arguing that the court should not validate the government’s unprecedented and damaging theory of criminal liability for software developers. This case has important implications for developers in every
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Amanda Tuminelli
@amandatums
Apr 27, 2024
The DOJ's opposition to Roman Storm's motions to dismiss and suppress evidence in the Tornado Cash case is filled with technical inaccuracies, obvious disdain for privacy and emerging technology, and misapplication of the law. The TLDR of the opposition is: look at our really
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Amanda Tuminelli
@amandatums
Feb 21, 2024
So this is huge. Today, @LEJILEX and the Crypto Freedom Alliance of Texas (CFAT) sued the SEC seeking a declaration that “secondary-market sales of digital assets like the ones that LEJILEX intends to facilitate through the Legit.Exchange are not sales of securities.”
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Amanda Tuminelli
@amandatums
Nov 21, 2024
This is HUGE. SEC loses on dealer rule - and the way they lose is so important: "The Rule as it currently stands de facto removes the distinction between “trader” and “dealer” as they have commonly been defined for nearly 100 years. The Court refuses to allow such a broad
Marisa Tashman Coppel
@MTCoppel
Nov 21, 2024
DEALER RULE STRUCK DOWN! SEC exceeded its statutory authority. HUGE win for the entire industry @BlockchainAssn and @CryptoFreedomTX !!!
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Amanda Tuminelli
@amandatums
Jul 26, 2025
As of Thursday, in their Rule 29 response, the DOJ is still pushing this theory that Storm, by publishing TC software, provided a "valuable service" to a sanctioned entity because DPRK used the protocol. This flawed principle is limitless: if I make a hammer with no particular
Amanda Tuminelli
@amandatums
Apr 5, 2024
Replying to @amandatums
4/ We point out that IEEPA has simply never been used the way that the government is using it in this indictment. We reviewed over 100 recent IEEPA cases and provided a table of 78 of the most relevant cases to the court, which you can see linked here. In every single one of
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Amanda Tuminelli
@amandatums
Dec 2, 2024
The most important issue currently facing the digital asset industry is the DOJ’s interpretation of Section 1960 - the criminal code provision punishing unlicensed “money transmitting businesses.” That is why I wrote this paper with @jchervinsky and @dbarabander explaining the
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Amanda Tuminelli
@amandatums
Jan 17, 2024
Today's oral argument in SEC v. Coinbase was incredibly positive for the industry’s efforts to fight back against regulatory overreach and makes me hopeful. Here’s why 👇
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Amanda Tuminelli
@amandatums
Aug 6, 2025
We @fund_defi will continue to support Roman as he fights the conviction on Section 1960, a fundamentally flawed charge from the start, and appeals it to the Second Circuit. This charge was the most technical and legally nuanced, and probably the most confusing for the jury. It
Inner City Press
@innercitypress
Aug 6, 2025
Replying to @innercitypress
Judge: He may appeal, he has every incentive to stay and fight. He is not a risk of flight, given the size of the bond. There is a lot of fighting left in this case before sentencing, and I think Mr. Storm will stay for it.
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Amanda Tuminelli
@amandatums
Sep 10, 2024
It was an honor to advocate on behalf of DeFi developers and users in front of @FinancialCmte @FSCDems today. I was grateful to sit next to the extremely talented experts @RebeccaRettig1 @valkenburgh and Brian Avello @udhc.
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Amanda Tuminelli
@amandatums
Aug 1, 2023
1/ Last week, @fund_defi submitted a FOIA request to the SEC asking for docs, comms and info related to its decision *not* to file an amicus brief in Kirschner v JPM. Here’s why you should care 👇
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Amanda Tuminelli
@amandatums
Oct 25, 2024
There is a growing discourse among a few loud voices in the crypto community as we approach the election that relies on sexist and hateful assumptions and ignorant beliefs about women. Putting aside that it is really disappointing and hurtful to experience, putting aside how
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Amanda Tuminelli
@amandatums
Jul 23, 2025
This is the problem when the DOJ decides to get creative with a legal theory on something like 18 USC 1960 - the DOJ shoots an arrow and then paints the target around it, trying to fill in shoddy evidence after the fact. The real tragedy is that the accused is always starting
Tay 💖
@tayvano_
Jul 18, 2025
This first witness in Roman's trial immediately caught my attention bc the victim was a classic Pig Butchering case. The only issue is....uh.....those scammers don't use Tornado Cash? And they never have? So, like, wtf?
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