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Weekly Blockchain Blog - March 2025

BakerHostetler on 3/4/2025

Digital Asset Companies Continue New Product Launches - Decentralized finance (DeFi) startup Figure Markets recently announced that it has launched “the first interest-bearing transferable stablecoin native to a public...more

2025 J.S. Held Global Risk Report: The Rise of Crypto & Digital Assets

J.S. Held on 2/12/2025

While the cryptocurrency industry is still relatively young, its adoption by various economic sectors and the evolution of the technology itself is growing, along with the tokenization of assets, AI-powered smart contracts,...more

Weekly Blockchain Blog - July 2024 #3

BakerHostetler on 7/22/2024

Stablecoin Demand Increases with Initiatives Announced in Germany, Hong Kong - Recent reports highlight an increasing demand for stablecoins. According to one report, the market cap of the PYUSD stablecoin recently...more

Stumbling Block? What is the Path Ahead for DeFi Through the Eyes of Policymakers?

BCLP on 2/12/2024

DeFi development carried quietly on throughout 2023, but DeFi protocols also faced significant hurdles. In the US, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) increased their...more

Analyzing the Treasury's Illicit Finance Risk Assessment of Decentralized Finance - The Crypto Exchange Podcast

Troutman Pepper Locke on 9/7/2023

In this episode of The Crypto Exchange, Troutman Pepper Partner Ethan Ostroff welcomes his colleagues Mike Lowe and Matt Orso to discuss the U.S. Department of Treasury's Illicit Finance Risk Assessment of Decentralized...more

Digital Assets and Blockchain: 2022-23 Key Trends

Hogan Lovells on 10/6/2022

2022 promises to be a defining year for digital assets and blockchain, as governments move from a watch and wait position to delivering regulatory frameworks and taking strides to harness the potential of the technology....more

Top PHive Crypto Enforcement Notes: September Edition

Paul Hastings LLP on 9/7/2022

Greetings, and thank you for taking a look at our new monthly crypto enforcement newsletter. Our goal is to share five topics each month that we believe are of significance in the world of crypto enforcement—particularly as...more

Will NFTs Push Regulators to Regulate the Metaverse?

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co. on 1/4/2022

A few years ago, NFTs were the subject of interest only for tech geeks and the cryptocurrency community. It seems, however, that nowadays, NFTs are almost everywhere. For those who don’t yet know, NFTs (non-fungible tokens)...more

A One-Way Rachet: FATF Regulation of Cryptocurrency and Decentralized Finance

King & Spalding on 11/23/2021

As cryptocurrency, decentralized finance (DeFi), and other uses of blockchain technology continue to proliferate, global regulators are grappling with how best to regulate their use. We have previously written about the...more

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) –The Future of Finance?

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co. on 10/19/2020

The first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, is still the most well-known application of blockchain. However, this technology has since rapidly evolved and expanded in many other areas. The initial hope with Bitcoin was to make both...more

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