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🥷 What’s happening: ​​Injective’s annual summit, slated for July 16, will be held in Washington, D.C. in an apparent effort to bring together policymakers, institutions, and the crypto industry under one roof. The event will feature programs with a focus on tokenization and onchain finance.

🥷 Why it matters: With an eye towards helping the industry form the rules around digital assets, the summit will help Injective work with lawmakers in order to reduce misunderstandings around DeFi, John Medel, chair of the Injective Policy Institute (IPI) said during the Injective Quarterly Webinar with Token Relations. 

“One of the key issues we've found while participating in the debate going on in Washington, is that there's a lot of misunderstanding about DeFi, and [the IPI] is trying to make sure that the educational level is increased and frankly amplified,” he said.

With the summit, Medel said the goal is to be in the room rather than react to it: "It's critical that we not just be heard, but we are part of developing the legislation and ultimately the rules that will govern this technology moving forward.”

Based in Washington D.C., the IPI is trying to solve a persistent problem in policy conversations: a preference for leaning on traditional finance analogies to describe blockchain systems, which often don't behave like their off-chain counterparts. "It might sound good on paper, but in practice, it's totally different," Brandon Goss, head of research at Injective, explained.

Goss said he offsets that by illustrating crypto’s growth and potential to lawmakers with data. For instance, telling policymakers “perpetuals are coming” carries little weight on its own, but showing the numbers and the reason behind it is more effective. 

“When perpetuals are trading a quarter trillion dollars [of volume] a month, it sort of gives you somewhere to level with them, to put things in perspective for them, to engage in those conversations,” Goss said.

Goss made the same point about tokenized credit, which he said has grown from the low hundreds of millions at the start of the 2025 to nearly $7 billion onchain today. "That kind of gets the attention and gets the conversation going," he said.

🥷  The bigger picture: The Injective Summit comes at a time when regulators are moving to shape rules that would affect Injective's core markets. 

Around the same time the IPI was formed, the CFTC approved the first regulated U.S. crypto perpetual contracts, a market Injective has focused on since inception. The summit aims to gather institutional allocators and the lawmakers writing digital-asset policy under one roof, potentially helping the network bolster its efforts in Washington D.C over the past few months.

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