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Blockchain and Digital Assets News and Trends – August 2025

DLA Piper on 8/21/2025

This periodic bulletin is designed to help companies identify important legal developments governing the use and acceptance of blockchain technology, smart contracts, and digital assets....more

[Event] 8th Forum on FinTech & Emerging Payment Systems - April 9th - 10th, New York, NY

American Conference Institute (ACI) on 2/28/2024

ACI’s 8th Annual Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Forum on Fintech & Emerging Payment Systems will provide in-depth guidance on the latest regulatory developments at the Federal and State Level that you need to be aware of....more

Crypto Link - November 2022

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 12/15/2022

This edition of CryptoLink follows the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, and lawmakers in Congress are now outlining ambitious agenda priorities for next Congress, putting digital assets near the top of the list. Following the FTX...more

Crypto Products Launch; FSB, OECD Address Crypto Regulation and Tax; US Exchange Fined $24M; DOJ and SEC Actions Continue; Major...

BakerHostetler on 10/17/2022

New Crypto Products Launch in Custody, Cloud Collaborations and Stablecoins - This week, a major U.S. financial institution announced that its Digital Asset Custody platform is now live in the United States. According to...more

The Distributed Ledger: Blockchain, Digital Assets and Smart Contracts - August 2021

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 8/27/2021

This issue discusses a variety of legal, regulatory and enforcement developments in the digital asset space in the U.S. and Europe, including expanded reporting requirements for broadly defined cryptocurrency “brokers,” a...more

Cryptocurrencies and Other Digital Assets: A New Regime

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment on 5/3/2021

Cryptocurrencies and digital assets will continue to be an area of intense regulatory focus, but a new administration may bring new regulations. SEC Chairman Gensler has extensive experience with cryptocurrencies and...more

The Distributed Ledger: Blockchain, Digital Assets and Smart Contracts - April 2021

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 4/19/2021

This issue discusses a variety of legal, regulatory and enforcement developments in the digital asset space in the U.S. and Europe....more

The Distributed Ledger: Blockchain, Digital Assets and Smart Contracts - October 2020

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 10/31/2020

Recent and significant regulatory and legislative events in the digital asset space demonstrate the evolving and expanding approach by U.S. and international regulators to the burgeoning digital asset markets. These...more

DOJ Cyber-Digital Task Force Releases Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 10/13/2020

Building off a 2018 alert outlining cyber threats generally, and following the federal indictment for money laundering of the founders of the offshore cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, on Oct. 8, 2020, the U.S. Department of...more

Blockchain Week in Review - September 2020 #2

Perkins Coie on 9/23/2020

U.S. Developments - Federal and State Regulatory Developments - U.S. Department of Homeland Security Issues Challenge for Development of Trusted User Interface for Digital Wallets - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security...more

Crypto and the Regulators: Will the Revolution Get Rules?

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 10/18/2019

Crypto currency began with the notion of getting “off the grid” – escaping the regulators and not being regulated. Over time that notion has transmuted. Now platforms trading crypto assets proclaim that the “revolution needs...more

Blockchain Week in Review - September 2019 #3

Perkins Coie on 10/9/2019

U.S. Developments - REGULATORY - House Passes Bill to Review How Blockchain Technology Can Improve FinCEN - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill sponsored by Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH) that requires the Director...more

Recent Developments in the Regulatory Treatment of Cryptoassets in the United Kingdom and United States

Morgan Lewis on 8/16/2019

Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic continue to monitor and address cryptoasset and distributed ledger technology activities. We recently posted on the guidance issued by the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network on...more

FinCEN Publishes Guidance Pertaining to Certain Business Models Involving Convertible Virtual Currencies

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 6/26/2019

On May 9, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the US Department of the Treasury (FinCEN) issued guidance relating to how its regulations apply to certain businesses that transact in "convertible virtual currencies"...more

Blockchain Week in Review - June 2019 #2

Perkins Coie on 6/19/2019

U.S. Developments - Regulatory Developments - SEC Chair’s Recent Comments on Digital Assets - Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Chairman Jay Clayton touched on digital asset issues during two recent...more

Blockchain Week in Review - May 2019

Perkins Coie on 5/16/2019

U.S. Developments - Regulatory Updates - CFTC Publishes Enforcement Manual - On May 8, 2019, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (“CFTC”) Division of Enforcement (“DOE”) published its first public...more

Blockchain Week in Review - April 2019 #3

Perkins Coie on 5/6/2019

U.S. Developments - Regulatory Updates - Arca Investment Management Files With SEC to Issue Stablecoin - Arca Investment Management, a California-based investment management firm specializing in digital assets, filed an...more

Blockchain and Tax: Navigating Uncertainty

Jones Day on 5/2/2019

Virtual currencies (often called cryptocurrencies) such as bitcoin are perhaps blockchain's best-known application. As these and other blockchain-based digital assets become more common, and attract more regulatory and...more

Blockchain Week in Review - March 2019 #3

Perkins Coie on 3/22/2019

U.S. Developments - Regulatory Updates - SEC Chairman Clayton Explains that an Asset Can Lose Its Status of Being Labeled a Security - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Chairman Jay Clayton appears to have...more

Blockchain Games and Collectibles – Patents and Other Legal Issues

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/20/2019

1. Blockchain Games and Collectibles Are on the Rise – The use of blockchain (or distributed ledger) technology for games (a.k.a blockchain games) and token-based digital collectibles is on the rise. The overnight popularity...more

Skadden's 2019 Insights: As Interest in Blockchain Technology Grows, So Do Attempts at Guidance and Regulation

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/18/2019

In 2018, the number of blockchain-enabled projects increased sharply as established companies sought to apply distributed ledger technology to their existing business models and startups developed new and disruptive models...more

Blockchain Week in Review - December 2018

Perkins Coie on 12/13/2018

U.S. Developments - SEC Remarks on International Virtual Currency Enforcement - On December 5, 2018, Steven Peikin, Co-Director of the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), gave a...more

Cryptoasset Exchanges Respond to New York Attorney General’s Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law on 5/14/2018

On April 17, 2018, the New York Attorney General’s Office (“OAG”) launched a Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative and sent letters to thirteen cryptoasset trading platforms requesting, through a questionnaire, disclosures on...more

Cryptocurrency 101

Lathrop GPM on 4/10/2018

If you do not currently own Bitcoin, the odds are in the last few months you have thought about the merits (or lack thereof) of owning Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, which is a digital or virtual currency (commonly...more

FinCEN Letter to U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Purports to Thread Needle of Potentially Competing Jurisdictions by Regulators...

Ballard Spahr LLP on 3/9/2018

As we previously have blogged, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) became one of the first regulators to wade into the regulation of cryptocurrency when it released interpretive guidance in March 2013 stating...more

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