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The BVI is a preferred international jurisdiction for fintech businesses as it is a well-established investment centre with a comprehensive, commercial virtual assets regime, which provides businesses with legal certainty. ...more
The UK Law Commission has published a consultation on reforms to private international law necessitated by emerging technologies such as decentralised ledger technology (DLT). The Law Commissions state that their project has...more
In a significant development for the digital asset industry, Republican lawmakers from the U.S. House Committees on Financial Services and Agriculture have released a comprehensive discussion draft of proposed legislation...more
Carey Olsen has contributed to The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guide 2024 for Blockchain. The aim of this guide is to provide its readers with a pragmatic overview of the law and practice of blockchain law across a variety...more
On July 1, 2024, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania joined twenty-three other states in adopting Uniform Commercial Code Article 12 and the accompanying amendments to the Pennsylvania Uniform Commercial Code....more
Crypto assets are some of the most rapidly evolving and increasingly adopted assets in the world. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is emerging as a blockchain-based alternative to traditional banking and financial services and...more
Fraud involving digital assets, specifically cryptocurrency, is rapidly increasing on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, the value of reported crypto-fraud increased 41% between 2022/2023 reaching a record £306m, whilst...more
It was a busy two weeks in Web3 law, as Binance lost in an appeal that could have wide-ranging jurisdictional implications outside of just digital assets. Coinbase also went on the offensive against the SEC in appealing the...more
A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate last week seeks “to bring crypto assets within the regulatory perimeter” by granting oversight responsibility to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for most forms...more
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California (the “Court”) recently held that a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) could be served via its online forum. If upheld, this decision will have...more
All crypto Celsius Network, LLC customers expecting and relying on anonymity should be concerned that their crypto transactions may become public. Recently, the Bankruptcy Court in the Celsius Network LLC chapter 11 case...more
In the first part of this series of articles, we examined the progress of English law to shape and build an infrastructure to support the development of a secure and certain environment for investment in digital assets. We...more
On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, the House of Representatives passed the Eliminate Barriers to Innovation Act of 2021 (the “Act”). The Act was initially introduced in March with an overarching aim to clarify the roles of the...more
After Bitfinex, the CFTC issued its Proposed Interpretation on “Retail Commodity Transactions Involving Virtual Currency.” Proposed Interpretation, 82 Fed. Reg. 60335 (CFTC Dec. 20, 2017). Although the comment period closed...more
In a series of 2015 decisions, the CFTC determined that virtual currency is a commodity subject to its jurisdiction. In a 2016 settled enforcement action, the CFTC took the position that an unregistered platform...more
The 2011 Dodd-Frank Act amended the CFTC’s jurisdiction to authorize regulation of “retail commodity transactions offered ‘on a leveraged or margined basis, or financed by the offeror, the counterparty, or a person acting in...more
In the decades that followed the enactment of the Homestead Act of 1862, more than 1.6 million U.S. citizens and intended citizens filed applications with the U.S. government to lay claim to 160 acres of land guaranteed to...more
Below is a summary of some of the significant legal and regulatory actions that occurred over the past week. This alert is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all such developments, but rather a selection of...more
A decision this week from a New York federal district court ruling that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had jurisdiction to regulate a cryptocurrency business represents the first opinion from a federal...more
A federal court this week found that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had jurisdiction to regulate a cryptocurrency business, raising the possibility of jurisdictional tension among the CFTC and other...more