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Morrison & Foerster LLP

SEC and CFTC Invite Crypto Innovation and Announce Joint Roundtable

On September 2, 2025, the Divisions issued a joint statement announcing a cross-agency initiative to coordinate efforts regarding the process for enabling the trading of certain spot crypto asset products. This initiative is...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

SEC and CFTC Call for Regulatory Harmonization Opportunities

On September 5, 2025, the SEC and CFTC issued a joint statement on regulatory harmonization opportunities and announced a joint SEC/CFTC roundtable to be held at the end of September. This release came on the heels of an...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

SEC and CFTC Chairs’ Joint Statement Raises Prospect of Competitive Onshoring of Perpetual Derivatives

Securities regulators signaled an openness to “innovation exemptions” allowing U.S. perpetual contracts and leveraged crypto markets to become competitive with offshore markets....more

DLA Piper

Blockchain and Digital Assets News and Trends - September 2024

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

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Pig Butchering Crypto Scams Rising

Pig Butchering Crypto Scams are scams which resemble the practice of fattening a hog before slaughter....more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - May 2024 #2

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Crypto and Web3 Firms Announce Fintech Integrations - A major U.S. fintech firm recently announced a product integration with MoonPay, a Web3 infrastructure company, “that allows MoonPay users in the U.S. to seamlessly buy...more

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Blockchain+ Bi-Weekly - May 2024

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Big news dropped in the past few weeks, which sent shockwaves across the industry: according to a recently filed lawsuit, the SEC has classified the second largest cryptocurrency, Ether, as a security in certain ongoing...more

Cornerstone Research

SEC Enforcement of Cryptocurrency Reaches a New High

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More than 50% increase in SEC cryptocurrency-related enforcement actions in 2023 over 2022. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues to view cryptocurrency-related enforcement as a top priority, bringing 46...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

SEC charges crypto firm for failing to register and mitigate risk factors

On November 20, the SEC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California against a crypto trading platform, which allows customers to buy and sell crypto assets through an online market, for...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

SEC Dismisses Ripple Labs Executives After Losing Bid for Interlocutory Appeal

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On October 19, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dismissed its claims against Ripple Labs, Inc. (Ripple) executives Bradley Garlinghouse and Christian Larsen for allegedly aiding and abetting Ripple’s violations of...more

Frantz Ward LLP

A New Robinhood Challenges the Establishment but this Time the Establishment Wins

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We all remember the legend of Robin Hood, who with his band of Merrie Men (plus Maid Marian of course) materialized from the depths of medieval Sherwood Forest to torment the corrupt Prince John and the cruel Sheriff of...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

SEC charges companies, founder for operating an unregistered exchange

On July 31, the SEC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against three cryptocurrency trading platforms and their founder for allegedly conducting unregistered offerings of crypto...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

SEC v. Ripple Labs: Analysis of Summary Judgment Opinion

Under the helm of SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, the Securities and Exchange Commission has argued that many cryptocurrencies qualify as “securities” under federal law, and therefore fall within the SEC’s bailiwick....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Ripple Labs : District Court Holds That Direct Digital Token Sales Constituted Investment Contracts Under Howey, but Other...

On July 13, 2023, Judge Torres of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a much-awaited summary judgment decision in SEC v. Ripple Labs, Inc., No. 1:20-cv-10832-AT-SN (S.D.N.Y. July 13, 2023),...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

District Court orders crypto platform and its CEO to disgorge and pay penalty in SEC case

On July 5, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered a crypto platform and its CEO to each pay a civil money penalty of $141,410, as well as to jointly pay disgorgement in the same amount, in a...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Ten State AGs Sue Coinbase, Alleging Securities Law Violations

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On June 6, Alabama, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin each filed enforcement actions against leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and its parent,...more

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With Specific Focus on Crypto, SEC Revisits Proposed “Exchange” Definition Changes

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC or the Commission) voted on Friday, April 14, 2023, to reopen the comment period for previously proposed amendments to Rule 3b-16 under the Exchange Act of 1934 (the...more

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Proposed SEC Rule Would Place Cryptocurrency Trading Platforms Under SEC Jurisdiction

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On April 14, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reopened the comment period for a January 2022 proposal that would subject cryptocurrency exchanges and decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms to the Securities...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

SEC opens comment period on defining “exchange”

On April 14, the SEC reopened the comment period on proposed amendments to the statutory definition of “exchange” under Exchange Act rule 3b-16, which now includes systems that facilitate the trading of crypto asset...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

New York AG sues crypto trading platform for failing to register

On February 22, the New York attorney general filed a petition in state court against a virtual currency trading platform (respondent) for allegedly failing to register as a securities and commodities broker-dealer and...more

BakerHostetler

DOJ, CFTC and SEC Bring Separate Actions for the Same Conduct: Alleged Digital Asset Manipulation and Fraud Scheme on Mango...

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Mango Markets is a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange that allows users to purchase and borrow cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency-related financial products. Mango Markets is run by the Mango Decentralized Autonomous...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Kraken Consents to SEC Injunction and Ceases Marketing its Staking-as-a-Service Program

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In a headline-grabbing action, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced on February 9 that it had instituted and settled an enforcement action against Kraken, a large crypto trading platform, in which it...more

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Kraken the Whip – Kraken Penalized Over Staking-as-a-Service

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On February 9, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) charged Kraken with offering and selling Kraken’s Staking Program – its staking-as-a-service product – as an unregistered security. Kraken, more...more

UB Greensfelder LLP

Chasing the Crypto: Why a Ruling in the Madoff Case May Significantly Expand the Universe of FTX Clawback Defendants

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While there are still many unknowns in FTX’s bankruptcy including what, exactly, happened to billions of dollars of customer deposits on the former crypto trading platform, one thing is almost certain: there will be an...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

SEC v. LBRY, Inc.: Federal Court Finds LBRY’s Crypto Token as a Security

It is no secret that over the last several years, there has been an exponential increase in the utilization of blockchain and digital assets. Crypto trading and lending platforms have grown rapidly and the total crypto market...more

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