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Weekly Blockchain Blog - July 2025 #3

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According to a recent press release, a major U.S. bank has entered into a strategic partnership with the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange platform. This collaboration reportedly aims to expand access to secure digital...more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - June 2025 #5

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Major US Payment Card Company Announces Multiple Digital Asset Initiatives - A major U.S. payment card services company recently announced multiple digital asset partnerships and products. ...more

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - June 2025 - The Tokenization Rulebook: Compliance Strategies for the Digital Asset Revolution

Introduction: The Evolution of Real-World Asset Tokenization - Since Bitcoin’s creation in 2008, cryptocurrencies and traditional assets have largely existed in parallel. In our previous exploration of Real World Assets...more

White & Case LLP

The crypto question: Digital currency dealmaking set to boom in 2025

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Dealmaking within the US and Europe is climbing as crypto assets increasingly enter the mainstream - Dealmaking in the digital currency space is flourishing, buoyed by strong industry growth, political backing and supportive...more

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White House Establishes a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Digital Asset Stockpile: What It Is and What It Implies

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On March 6, President Trump issued an Executive Order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve capitalized by Government BTC and a U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile capitalized by other crypto assets. Creating the Strategic...more

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White House Establishes Strategic Bitcoin Reserve

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On March 6, President Trump issued an executive order declaring the “Establishment of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and United States Digital Asset Stockpile.” The move marks a massive leap forward for an administration that...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

New Administration Outlook: An Opening for a National Payments/Fintech Charter – and a Pathway to Financial Modernization?

Recent announcements by Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) and X might signal that financial modernization may have finally reached a tipping point. With the right regulatory environment, fintechs and other new market...more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - January 2025 #2

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U.S. Web3 Companies Launch Products and Tech Integrations - A major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange recently launched a “Bitcoin-based loans” product that allows customers to post BTC as collateral for USDC loans. ...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Crypto Policy Outlook in the Trump Administration

During the 2024 campaign, President-elect Donald Trump took significant steps to embrace digital assets and the industry that has developed around them, positioning himself as a champion of crypto. In a speech delivered at...more

Allen Matkins

California Court Upholds Daily Transaction Limits On Bitcoin ATMs

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A year ago, Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills,  Assembly Bill 39 and Senate Bill 401, that created the California Digital Financial Assets Law.  SB 401 added Section 3902 to the Financial Code to prohibit an operator of...more

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - July 2024 # 5

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To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Blockchain Analysis and Related Expert Testimony Admissible In Criminal Trial

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It is challenging for law enforcement to track down and trace illicit activities conducted through digital currencies. The process can be very time- and resource-intensive. Further, securing charges and arrests, and...more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - March 2024 #2

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Financial Institutions Add Bitcoin ETFs, Crypto Product Integrations Continue - According to recent reports, two major U.S. financial institutions have begun offering spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to their...more

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - November 2023 # 4

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To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

FDIC's Annual Risk Review Includes Crypto Risks for First Time

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) published its annual Risk Review this past Monday, providing an overview of banking conditions for 2022 through early 2023. The FDIC started providing Risk Reviews to the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

NYDFS to impose supervision fees on virtual currency licensees

On April 17, NYDFS announced the adoption of a final regulation establishing how certain licensed virtual currency businesses will be assessed for supervision and examination costs. Under 23 NYCRR Part 102, licensed virtual...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

What’s Next for Blockchain Tech and Crypto in 2023?

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Following the recent closures of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and Silvergate Bank and Credit Suisse’s takeover by Swiss-based rival UBS, ramifications for blockchain tech and crypto-based assets and deals are...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

IRS’s Crypto John Doe Summons Expanded While Harper Fights Back

Since at least 2016 the IRS has been ferreting out taxpayers who failed to report their taxable gains from cryptocurrency transactions by issuing John Doe summonses to crypto exchanges and dealers. A John Doe summons enables...more

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DOJ issues charges in first criminal cryptocurrency sanctions case

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Last Friday, a federal Magistrate Judge in Washington, D.C. wrote an opinion, in a still sealed case, explaining why he approved a DOJ criminal complaint against an American citizen accused of transmitting more than $10...more

UB Greensfelder LLP

An Introduction to Crypto for Financial Services Professionals

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In the last couple of years, cryptocurrencies went from a fringe discussion to seemingly everywhere around us. Join Ulmer partner Nathan W. Lamb as he helps financial services professionals navigate this new reality. In this...more

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Stocks Continue Weeks-Long Slide to Start the Week

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Despite Friday’s confirmation of another month of robust job growth, Wall Street couldn’t shake a “relentless decline” that’s going on 6 weeks now and was fueled on Monday “by new data from China that added to concerns about...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Cryptocurrency Revolution and President Biden's Formal Recognition

Out of the ashes of the 2008 financial crisis, Bitcoin sprang up like an insurgency, targeting both the unbridled activity of large financial institutions and the monetary policies of governments charged with overseeing them....more

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[Webinar] An Introduction to Crypto for Financial Services Professionals - March 29th, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

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In the last couple of years, cryptocurrencies went from a fringe discussion to seemingly everywhere around us. Join Ulmer partner Nathan W. Lamb as he helps financial services professionals navigate this new reality. He will...more

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2022 Is the Year of Sweeping Changes for Cryptocurrency and Other Digital Asset Transfers

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What to look out for in the proposed new Chapter 12 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) The world of cryptocurrencies and other forms of digital assets (such as non-fungible tokens) is exploding. While Bitcoin is the...more

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Fed Minutes Suggest Hawkish Turn, Rattle Markets

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The release of the Fed’s December meeting minutes (and its discussion of a quickened pace of rate hikes) was all it took to rattle markets, with the S&P 500 dropping nearly 2% on Wednesday—“its biggest drop in weeks.”...more

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