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Southern District Of New York Denies Digital Asset Trading Company’s Motion For Judgment On The Pleadings

A&O Shearman on 3/13/2025

On February 7, 2025, Judge Paul A. Engelmayer of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denied a motion for judgment on the pleadings in a putative class action against a cryptocurrency...more

SEC Enforcement of Cryptocurrency Dropped 30% in the Last Year of the Gensler Administration

Cornerstone Research on 1/24/2025

Enforcement during Gensler administration was considerably higher than during the previous administration. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought 33 cryptocurrency-related enforcement actions in 2024, the...more

SEC Achieves Jury Verdict In Cryptocurrency Fraud Case

A&O Shearman on 4/17/2024

On April 5, 2024, a jury in the Southern District of New York found cryptocurrency startup Terraform Labs PTE Ltd. (the “Company”) and its co-founder, Do Kwon, liable for securities fraud. The jury sided with the SEC in...more

Good as Gold? Dual SEC/CFTC Trials Loom for Alleged Precious Metals Coin Fraud

Holland & Knight LLP on 10/27/2023

Digital assets are not the only coins drawing regulatory scrutiny these days. Earlier this year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it filed a complaint against California-based Red Rock Secured...more

Ripple Effect: SEC Lawsuit against Cryptocurrency Company May Provide Guidance For Crypto Industry

Amundsen Davis LLC on 3/12/2021

On December 21, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a high-profile enforcement action against a major cryptocurrency company. The SEC complaint alleges violations of federal securities laws by defendant...more

A Question To The SEC After The Block.One Settlement: Has The Sec Decided To Be Less Aggressive In Sanctioning Violations By...

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 10/18/2019

Until September 30, 2019, Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) enforcement actions in the crypto industry conveyed a consistent message: most crypto is a security, and if a token issuer does not follow the registration...more

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Southern District Of New York Denies Digital Asset Trading Company’s Motion For Judgment On The Pleadings

SEC Enforcement of Cryptocurrency Dropped 30% in the Last Year of the Gensler Administration

SEC Achieves Jury Verdict In Cryptocurrency Fraud Case

Good as Gold? Dual SEC/CFTC Trials Loom for Alleged Precious Metals Coin Fraud

Ripple Effect: SEC Lawsuit against Cryptocurrency Company May Provide Guidance For Crypto Industry

A Question To The SEC After The Block.One Settlement: Has The Sec Decided To Be Less Aggressive In Sanctioning Violations By...

The SEC Takes Aim at Another Initial Coin Offering

The Distributed Ledger: Blockchain, Digital Assets and Smart Contracts - April 2019

US Securities and Exchange Commission Charges Digital Asset Trading Platform Founder for Operating Unregistered Exchange

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