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SEC Staff Guidance on Liquid Staking Activities

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On August 5, 2025, the staff (the “Staff”) of the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”) issued new guidance regarding certain Protocol Staking (defined below) activities.  This guidance builds on a May 2025 Staff...more

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SEC Greenlights Proof-of-Work Mining

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The Division’s statement specifically addresses the mining of crypto assets that are intrinsically linked to the programmatic functioning of a public, permissionless network. These assets, referred to by the Division as...more

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SEC’s ATS Re-proposal Doubles Down on DeFi and Digital Asset Regulation

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In April 2023, the SEC re-proposed amendments to Exchange Act Rule 3b-16 to expand the definition of what it means to be an exchange. When the SEC initially proposed these amendments in January 2022, there were zero direct...more

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SEC Issues Guidance on Accounting for Safeguarding Crypto Assets

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In light of an increasing number of companies that give platform users the ability to transact in crypto assets and provide a service to safeguard such assets, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued Staff...more

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