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Weekly Blockchain Blog - April 2025 #4

BakerHostetler on 4/28/2025

Companies Announce Digital Asset Payment Networks - The issuer of the USDC stablecoin recently published a white paper outlining its plans to launch “CPN,” a new payments network that aims to “bring[] financial institutions...more

Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Investment Advisors – Yes, Financial Crime is Borderless and Legal Entity-Agnostic

Guidepost Solutions LLC on 5/24/2024

There is a growing acknowledgement that money laundering and terrorist financing is borderless and legal entity-agnostic, just as it is already known that cybercriminals and the means to commit cybercrimes continuously attack...more

Will There Be a Ripple Effect? Federal Judge Rules Some Sales of XRP Were Not Securities Transactions

Polsinelli on 7/21/2023

The long battle between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and Ripple reached a partial resolution with the Court ruling the digital asset at issue (“XRP”) is not itself a security and certain sales of the...more

Crypto Compensation? Bitcoin Bonus? New York State Employers Must Weigh Requests Carefully

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC on 7/29/2022

If your staff member wants his or her paycheck in cryptocurrency, should you – as an employer keeping up with the times — accommodate the request? You don’t have to work in Silicon Valley or play for the NFL to field this...more

November 2020 Blockchain Legislative Alert – Fall 2020 Legislative Developments

Cozen O'Connor on 11/23/2020

The news that one of the world’s leading online payments companies will allow its 325 million account holders to conduct transactions using cryptocurrencies serves as a high-profile indicator of the increasing maturity of...more

Financial Daily Dose 10.12.2020 | Top Story: Court Rules Apple Doesn’t Have to Offer Fortnite in App Store

Robins Kaplan LLP on 10/12/2020

Big Friday win for Apple in its ongoing battle with Epic Games, as N.D. Cal. Federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Cook & Co. didn’t “need to reinstate the popular video game Fortnite in its App Store,” a blow to...more

Blockchain Week in Review - December 2019 #2

Perkins Coie on 12/30/2019

U.S. Developments - Federal Reserve Governor Speaks on Stablecoins and Related Risks - On December 18, 2019, Governor Lael Brainard of the U.S. Federal Reserve delivered a speech entitled “Update on Digital Currencies,...more

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