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Second Circuit Vacates Former OpenSea Employee’s “Insider Trading” Conviction

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On June 1, 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York charged former OpenSea employee Nathaniel Chastain with wire fraud1 for an NFT “insider trading” scheme. At the time, we here at SKrypto asked:...more

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law

Ownership Claims over Auction of “The First NFT” Previously Dismissed by a New York Court Now on Appeal

Way back (if we’re counting tech years) in 2014, artist Kevin McCoy (“McCoy”) created a digital record of his pulsating, octagon-shaped digital artwork Quantum on the Namecoin blockchain on May 2, 2014, thereby minting “the...more

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