On February 27, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission formally abandoned its enforcement action against Coinbase. ...more
3/5/2025
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Three days before Christmas 2020, the SEC served Ripple Labs Inc. and two of its executives with a lawsuit. How is that for a present under the tree? As the SKrypto Blog reported at the time, the main issue was whether XRP, a...more
7/19/2023
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In honor of the 2023 MLB All-Star game, Seward and Kissel presents the first ever Howey All-Star Team. The lineup below imagines the seminal federal cases interpreting the meaning of the term “investment contract” in U.S....more