Crypto Tax Legislation is Next After CLARITY Act Passes… Get Ready! | Patrick Wilson

April 24, 2026

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Patrick Wilson, general counsel at the Solana Policy Institute (SPI), a nonpartisan nonprofit educating policymakers on decentralized networks like Solana, discusses recent regulatory shifts and crypto tax hurdles with host Tony Edward. He contrasts the current constructive agency dialogues—marked by openness from SEC Chair Paul Atkins and the CFTC—with the prior enforcement-heavy era, highlighting joint SEC-CFTC guidance classifying Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana as digital commodities and affirming staking as non-securities activity.

SPI's Policy Work

SPI engages lawmakers, regulators, and courts to explain Solana's role in on-chain finance and internet capital markets. Efforts include hill meetings, comment letters on rulemakings, and supportive litigation briefs. Wilson notes SPI's one-year anniversary under CEO Miller Whitehouse-Levine, emphasizing proactive education on market structure, taxes, and DeFi to balance innovation with rules. Congressional staff, despite heavy workloads, devote time to industry input from groups like SPI, Bitcoin Policy Institute, and Coin Center.

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1 (03:34) **Guest Introduction** - Patrick Wilson, General Counsel at Solana Policy Institute (SPI), discusses his legal background in crypto.
2 (04:12) **Patrick's Journey into Crypto** - Background growing up in Georgia, law career, first exposure via lunch-and-learn.
3 (07:46) **Regulatory Shift Under New Leadership** - Contrast from Gensler subpoenas to constructive SEC/CFTC dialogue.
4 (09:01) **Solana Policy Institute Mission** - Educating policymakers on decentralized networks like Solana for on-chain finance.
5 (11:47) **Crypto Tax Ambiguities as Adoption Barrier** - Everyday transactions create multiple taxable events, deterring use.
6 (14:33) **Staking Tax Problems Defined** - Rewards taxed upon wallet receipt, creating thousands of trackable events yearly.
7 (16:26) **Clarity Act vs. Tax Legislation** - Separate tracks; Clarity focuses on market structure, tax needs own bipartisan fixes.

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Show Notes

Patrick Wilson, General Counsel at the Solana Policy Institute, joined me to discuss the need for crypto tax legislation, the Parity Act, the Clarity Act’s passing timeline, and much more.
Topics:
- Crypto tax legislation (Parity Act)
- IRS approach to Crypto
- SEC & CFTC guidance
- Important of the Clarity Act
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⏰ Time Stamps ⏰
00:00 Intro
03:13 Patrick's background
10:49 Crypto taxes complexities
12:32 Crypto staking taxes
15:30 Tax legislation
47:29 Wrap up questions
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