Injective helped pioneer onchain derivatives, perpetuals, and decentralized financial infrastructure. Through the Injective Policy Institute, we engage with policymakers and regulators to help shape a clear and workable framework for 21st century finance to thrive in the United States.
Injective Policy Institute is the policy and research arm of Injective, one of the largest American-founded crypto ecosystems. The Policy Institute is based in Washington, DC and Injective Labs, the original developer of the Injective blockchain, is headquartered in New York City. Injective is the first blockchain purpose-built for finance and a pioneer of onchain derivatives, perpetual futures, and novel crypto infrastructure.
We created many of the technologies regulators are now working to understand. That makes us uniquely positioned to work alongside policymakers and other stakeholders as the architects of this new governance framework.
The United States is still working to agree on a regulatory framework for DeFi, onchain derivatives, and decentralized markets. Builders and users do not yet have a clear path to governance, pushing innovation, talent, and capital elsewhere.
Stablecoin Payments, perpetual futures, decentralized lending, and tokenized assets are already live at global scale. American policy must keep pace with the underlying technology.
Other major jurisdictions are moving fast to establish rules for digital assets and onchain finance. Without a robust framework, the United States risks ceding leadership and talent in a defining tech sector.
Onchain financial infrastructure offers meaningful advantages: faster settlement, greater transparency, broader access, and lower operating costs. The question is no longer whether this technology can work. The question is whether the United States will lead in shaping its development and adoption.
We launched Injective Policy Institute to contribute technical expertise, policy analysis, and practical recommendations towards that effort.
Builders need rules they can follow, not uncertainty driven by enforcement alone.
Onchain infrastructure can expand access to financial markets. Policy should preserve that opportunity while protecting users.
Non-custodial systems should be understood on their own terms, not forced into categories built for centralized intermediaries.
The United States has the talent, capital, and institutional strength to lead in onchain finance. We are working to make it happen.
Regulatory clarity for decentralized finance protocols. Safe harbors, developer protections, and guidance for non-custodial systems.
Injective pioneered onchain perpetual futures. We advocate for regulatory pathways that let Americans access and build onchain derivatives markets.
Frameworks that recognize stablecoins as critical financial infrastructure while preserving competition and innovation.
Our work includes formal policy submissions, direct engagement with regulators and legislative stakeholders, and technical briefings on DeFi, onchain derivatives, and decentralized exchange infrastructure.