{"id":678552,"date":"2026-10-30T21:05:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T21:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=860192"},"modified":"2026-10-30T21:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T21:05:59","slug":"a16z-uniswap-warn-illinois-crypto-tax-rules-could-effectively-ban-defi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/a16z-uniswap-warn-illinois-crypto-tax-rules-could-effectively-ban-defi\/","title":{"rendered":"A16z, Uniswap Warn Illinois Crypto Tax Rules Could Effectively Ban DeFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/FQZ0VYxN-illinois-cryptocurrency-bill-768x384.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Uniswap Labs, and the DeFi Education Fund are urging Illinois regulators to overhaul proposed cryptocurrency tax regulations, warning that the rules could effectively prohibit decentralized finance (DeFi) activity in the state while exposing users to serious security risks. In a letter submitted Friday, Oct. 30, the three organizations argued [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Uniswap Labs, and the DeFi Education Fund are urging Illinois regulators to overhaul proposed cryptocurrency tax regulations, warning that the rules could effectively prohibit decentralized finance (DeFi) activity in the state while exposing users to serious security risks. In a letter submitted Friday, Oct. 30, the three organizations argued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":678553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-678552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}