A Conversation with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce
Powering Sustainable Crypto: A General Counsel’s View
Crypto & Politics: Insights from Former Congressman David McIntosh
Unraveling the Crypto Code: California's New DFAL Explained – The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: What is FedNow and its Role in the U.S. Payments System?
Podcast: How does DeFi impact insurance, employment, and litigation? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 48]
Immutable Holdings: The Preeminent Blockchain Conglomerate
Podcast: DeFi and Tax: How are digital currencies treated by the IRS? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 47]
GILTI Conscience Podcast | Blockchain for Beginners: Basic Tax Issues for Digital Assets
Kilptrick Townsend Digital Assets Minute | U.S. Treasury—Comments on Digital Assets Development Due August 8th
NFT Perspectives: A Discussion With Artist and Filmmaker Haik Kocharian
Digital Assets Regulation Framework: Commerce Solicits Public Comment
A Dive into Cryptocurrency - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Hsu Untied interview with Joseph Perkins, Partner at Orrick
An Introduction to Crypto for Financial Services Professionals
Cryptocurrency: The Regulator’s Perspective
Forthcoming Bipartisan Legislation Regulating Digital Assets
Congressional and Federal Agency Action Following Executive Order on Digital Assets Policy
Digital Currency and National Security Implications
JONES DAY TALKS®: We Got This: CFTC Chair Pursues Authority Over Digital Assets
After the Senate passed the GENIUS Act last month, the House of Representatives has now passed the GENIUS Act by a vote of 308-122, sending the landmark stablecoin legislation to President Trump for his signature....more
On July 16, Commissioner Hester M. Peirce gave a speech at London’s Guildhall with other financial regulators and industry leaders. In her speech, Commissioner Peirce highlighted the historic ties between the U.S. and the...more
In a continuing trend across U.S. states, Vermont and Pennsylvania have shown their intent to establish more oversight over the digital currency sector. New legislative amendments to Vermont’s financial services laws include...more
After prolonged deliberation, California has finally decided to enter the virtual currency regulatory arena by adopting two virtual currency regulatory bills into law. The California Digital Financial Assets Law (“DFAL”),...more
Financial Firm Completes CBDC Pilot; Exchanges Launch P2P Trading Platform - A major U.S. financial services firm recently published a press release announcing that it has “successfully demonstrated capabilities of a new...more
The Blockchain Bi-Weekly presented by the Polsinelli Blockchain+ team is a rundown of some of the key stories in the Web3, blockchain and crypto ecosystems curated by our attorneys navigating the intersections of code, smart...more
Since what feels like the beginning of time, cash currency has dominated the business of monetary compensation. Beginning in the 1950’s, cash met one of its toughest competitors: the credit card. Piggybacking off the idea of...more
On January 3, 2009, the pseudonymous “Satoshi Nakamoto” mined the first bitcoin. In the years following bitcoin’s creation, the price of a single bitcoin has increased exponentially, from essentially zero to an all-time high...more
On March 9, President Biden signed a highly anticipated executive order outlining his administration’s cryptocurrency policy. We have previously blogged about the Biden administration’s working group on stablecoins and the...more
President Biden signed an executive order today setting forth an agenda across the U.S. government to address risks related to cryptocurrencies while encouraging continued innovation around digital assets and funds transfer...more
On 21 October this year, the Bank of Spain created the registry where service providers for both the exchange of virtual currency for fiat currency and the custody of electronic wallets must register, as a result of the...more
U.S. Developments - Legislation - Congress Members Reintroduce Bill to Define Digital Assets - U.S. Representative Tom Emmer (MN-06) re-introduced legislation aimed at defining how regulators should classify and...more
Hope is in the air (not to mention copious amounts of tree pollen) here in New York – and that’s to say nothing of the Knicks’ hardwood resurgence, the Giants’ highly-acclaimed moves in last week’s NFL Draft and the Yankees’...more
Fed Chair Powell, speaking at an economics conference in Denver yesterday, made news by indicating that the central bank would “once again begin expanding its portfolio of government-backed securities”—a shift in policy...more
There exists no uniformity with respect to how businesses that deal in virtual currencies (also known as "cryptocurrencies") such as Bitcoin are treated among the states....more
A small number of states see blockchain technology as a way to attract new businesses to their state to spur economic development. In March 2018, Wyoming Governor Matt Mead signed sweeping legislation that makes limited...more
Add Connecticut, Ohio and Vermont to the list of states passing legislation focused on the potential disruptive impact of blockchain – the technology underlying cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. ...more
• The rapid proliferation of technological advancements in global financial markets has caused regulators in several countries to increase their scrutiny of investments in, and implications of, cryptocurrencies. • This...more
Global Regulators Increasingly Shifting Focus to Cryptocurrency - After years of allowing cryptocurrency transactions to fly under the radar, financial market regulators are beginning to turn their attention to virtual...more
Chairman Giancarlo Statement on Virtual Currencies - On January 4, 2018, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman, J. Christopher Giancarlo, issued a statement on virtual currencies. "The CFTC's Market Risk...more
As of this inaugural publication, there exists no uniformity with respect to how businesses that deal in virtual currencies (also known as “cryptocurrencies”) such as Bitcoin are treated among the states. For these...more