Bill Hughes is senior counsel and director of global regulatory matters for Consensys Software, the leading Ethereum blockchain software company. Bill focuses on the diverse and ever evolving crypto regulatory landscape and the legal, regulatory, and public policy issues with which Consensys and the broader crypto ecosystem are grappling, including unhosted crypto wallets, decentralized finance, and peer-to-peer transactions. Bill joined Consensys after serving as an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice and also at the White House. He frequently talks policy on X (@BillHughesDC), and his writings on policy issues appear in CoinDesk and on Consensys's blog.