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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Making Way For Stablecoin—Genius Act Would Amend Bankruptcy Code to Accommodate Certain Crypto Assets

Congress rarely amends the Bankruptcy Code.  Congress first adopted the Bankruptcy Code in 1978.  After a series of amendments in the early 1980s to address initial concerns, Congress amended the Code only modestly until the...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Cryptocurrency Deposits Do Not Belong to Account Holders: New York Bankruptcy Holding Severs Customers’ Right and Title to Crypto...

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In a recent decision by Chief Judge Martin Glenn of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York presiding over cryptocurrency Chapter 11 megacase, In re Celsius Network, LLC, et al., Case No....more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Read the Fine Print – Bankruptcy Court Holds Cryptocurrency in Interest Bearing 'Earn Accounts' to be Property of the Estate

When a company files for bankruptcy protection, Section 541 of the Bankruptcy Code creates an estate comprised of "all legal and equitable interest of the debtor in property." On July 15, 2022, Celsius Network LLC filed for...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Another Cryptocurrency Firm Bites the Dust

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Cryptocurrency platform BlockFi Inc.—another casualty of the collapse of exchange FTX earlier this month—filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition this morning in the New Jersey Bankruptcy Court (Case No. 22-1936). BlockFi joins...more

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Crypto Exchange Bankruptcies: Are Prepetition Crypto Withdrawals and DeFi Loan Repayments Avoidable Preferences?

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Over the span of two weeks in July 2022, two of the largest retail-facing cryptocurrency platforms, Celsius and Voyager, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Both cases were precipitated, at least in part, by a “run on...more

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Cryptocurrency and Bankruptcy –The Unknown Frontier

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Currencies have evolved since the introduction of global blockchain technology twenty years ago. Blockchain is a complex technology that powers the creation of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and facilitates other digital...more

UB Greensfelder LLP

New UCC Amendments to Establish Ground Rules for Blockchain Transactions and Crypto-Backed Secured Financings

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Just as cryptocurrency markets are attempting to thaw out from a “crypto winter,” a joint committee of the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) and the American Law Institute (ALI) has finalized a significant and wide-ranging...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Vulnerability of Customers’ Crypto in Bankruptcy; Is Help on the Way?

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The major cryptocurrencies have experienced significant declines in 2022; with the crypto market shedding $2 trillion of its peak $3 trillion market capitalization in November 2021. Amid this “crypto winter,” Terra Luna and...more

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Voyager: The Convergence of Chapter 11 and the Crypto Winter

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Voyager Digital Assets, Inc., a leading cryptocurrency brokerage and lending platform, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on July 5, 2022 in the Southern District of New York following a recent financial crisis...more

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Charting New (and Familiar) Territory: The Voyager Crypto Bankruptcy

Voyager Digital Assets Inc., along with two of its affiliates, filed bankruptcy petitions in the Southern District of New York on July 5, 2022. The filing is significant—it followed months of an extreme downturn in the...more

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Crypto Turbulence Leaves Celsius Network Account Holders and Creditors Voyaging Through Uncharted Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Waters

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Crypto business and cryptocurrency market participants – even without a stake in this case – will be well served paying close attention to the Celsius bankruptcy to witness the crypto legal and regulatory framework continue...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Cryptic Crypto: Creditors Move for Ch. 7 for Alleged Madoff-Like Fraud

On Wednesday, November 18, two customers of Cred Inc., a cryptocurrency investment platform currently in Chapter 11, asked Delaware Bankruptcy Judge John T. Dorsey to convert the Chapter 11 case to a Chapter 7 liquidation...more

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Blockchain Week in Review - November 2020

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U.S. Developments - DOJ Seizes More Than $1 Billion in Cryptocurrency from Silk Road Hacker - On November 5, the U.S. Department of Justice (the DOJ) announced that it seized more than 69,000 Bitcoin, now worth more than $1...more

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BitBlog Bi-Weekly Update - March 2020

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Strikeout for Bitcoin ETF -   Another ETF bites the dust. On February 26th the SEC rejected the application of NYSE Acre for the approval of an exchange traded fund sponsored by the New York firm of Wilshire Phoenix to...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Crypto As Commodity, And The Bankruptcy Implications

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On Aug. 23, 2018, Nobuaki Kobayashi, the trustee over the estate of the troubled Mt. Gox — the hacked Japanese cryptocurrency exchange — opened an online claims submission process that would allow creditors to recoup their...more

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