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Weekly Blockchain Blog - August 2025 #3

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US Stablecoin Issuers Announce Bank Charter Application, New L1 Network - Paxos, a blockchain infrastructure and tokenization platform and issuer of the USDP stablecoin, recently announced that it “has filed an application...more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - June 2025 #2

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Crypto Payments Companies Achieve Licenses, Enhance Product Offerings - A U.S. digital asset payments company, MoonPay, recently announced that it has been granted a BitLicense by the New York Department of Financial...more

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Conyers Investment Funds Report | Q1 2025

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This inaugural edition of the Conyers Investment Funds Report presents a variety of updates and insights relevant to the investment funds space in the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda. The report provides...more

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MintzTech Connect: All Things Technology — April 2025

Challenging times. The stock market is choppy, and uncertainty about the economy and politics is pervasive. That said, we have seen that venture capitalists with conviction are making big bets. History tells us that the...more

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Second Circuit Upholds Dismissal Of Federal Securities Law Claims Against Cryptocurrency Trading Platform Operator

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On February 26, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of federal securities claims against the developers of a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange and the exchange’s venture...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

The Entrepreneurs Report - Full-Year 2024

In this latest issue of The Entrepreneurs Report, we’ve compiled a range of data on venture, convertible note, and SAFE financing transactions in which the firm was involved during 2024, with the objective of identifying...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Meet CFTC Nominee Brian Quintenz

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On February 12, President Donald Trump nominated Brian Quintenz to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. This article profiles Quintenz as a nominee, surveys Pham’s initiatives as acting chair, and considers...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Brian Quintenz nominated to be CFTC Chairman

On February 11, the White House nominated Brian Quintenz to replace Caroline Pham as Chairman of the CFTC. He previously worked as the Head of Policy at a venture capital fund that invests in cryptoassets. Quintenz previously...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Samuels v. Lido DAO: A Potential New Frontier for Liability in the Cryptocurrency Space

A recent order handed down by U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California could be a new source of concern for digital asset entrepreneurs and the venture capital firms that invest in and support...more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - August 2024 #3

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Crypto Firms Announce New Products in Payments, Investments, Custody - A major U.S. digital asset management company recently announced the creation and public launch of its MakerDAO Trust, which “offers investors the...more

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Regulatory & Risk Advisory Review: Cayman Islands - April to June 2024

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Welcome to the second instalment of 2024 of the Regulatory & Risk Advisory Review. In this edition we cover several Cayman Islands regulatory updates including updates to the Beneficial Ownership Transparency Act, the...more

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment

Is Artificial Intelligence Inflating a Valuation Bubble?

Big fund-raising rounds and high valuations have some wondering whether the AI sector is in a bubble in the nature of the dotcom boom. As of this writing, OpenAI is valued at over $80 billion; Amazon added another $2.75...more

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Doing Business in Australia

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Australia welcomes new business and foreign investment by providing a strong economy, a stable political environment and a skilled and talented workforce. Our comprehensive guide to Doing Business in Australia has been...more

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law

Part I: With New DAO Law on the Books, Utah Joins Race with Wyoming and Tennessee to Become U.S. “Crypto Capital”

Little-known legal trivia: In 1977 Wyoming was the first state to pioneer the LLC, which is now a commonly applied legal innovation. Fast forward more than forty years…in July 2021, Wyoming again tried to be at the vanguard...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

NFTs and Ordinals: A Conversation with WenMint Co-Founder Leroy Ware

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On this episode of the Crypto Innovators podcast, Eric Swartz, senior counsel and Vice Chair of Lowenstein Crypto, talks with Leroy Ware, co-founder and blockchain engineer at WenMint, a Web3 launchpad specializing in...more

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Down but not out: Crypto takes a hit in 2022 but is not going anywhere

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Never has the digital asset space experienced such a succession of high-profile implosions and steady flow of negative mainstream press coverage, leaving many to ask—what next? The crypto industry has endured arguably its...more

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law

CFTC Ooki DAO Enforcement Action Update: The Commission Responds

On September 22, 2022, the CFTC announced an order simultaneously filing and settling charges against bZeroX, LLC (“bZeroX”) and its creators for illegally offering leveraged and margined retail commodity transactions in...more

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Abu Dhabi Global Market Enhances Its Environmental, Commodities, Digital and Capital Markets Framework

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The Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has recently published new financial services amending regulations and various amended rulebook modules. These wide-ranging measures update ADGM’s rules on environmental matters, virtual...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Informed Board - Summer 2022

In this issue of The Informed Board, we discuss how companies can position themselves as merger reviews grow lengthier and more difficult, and we explain the legal framework for NFTs so directors can provide informed...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Project W - Making Sense of What's Happening in Crypto

With founders and investors in the Project W community increasingly innovating with and investing in digital assets, we asked Alexandra Barrage, a partner in DWT's Financial Services Practice Group and the leader of Project...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

[Event] Women in FinTech (“WinFin2022”) - March 31st, Miami, FL

Join Nelson Mullins’s Women in FinTech (“WinFin”) Group for the inaugural WinFin Conference. The panel of nationally recognized thought leaders will share insights on FinTech’s global development. As we celebrate Women's...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

2021 Digital Asset Regulatory Lookback (US Edition)

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Popular and institutional interest in digital assets, decentralized applications, NFTs, and blockchain technology skyrocketed, and regulators sprinted to catch up. For the digital asset markets, 2021 was a banner year....more

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Agencies Approve Final Rule: Computer-Security Incident Notification

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In This Issue. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (together, the Agencies) issued a final rule...more

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In Case You Missed It: Launch Links - June 2021 #2

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Some interesting links we found across the web this week: No, NFTs Aren’t Copyrights - Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) seem like a viable way for artists to sell art online. But to what extent does this new crypto asset...more

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Fintech 2020: A Global Survey on the State of Financial Technology

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Letter from Our Co-Chairs - As the digital transformation of financial markets accelerates at breakneck speeds, fintech presents significant opportunities and challenges for both investors and innovators around the world. ...more

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