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Weekly Blockchain Blog - March 2024 #2

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Financial Institutions Add Bitcoin ETFs, Crypto Product Integrations Continue - According to recent reports, two major U.S. financial institutions have begun offering spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to their...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

New FINRA sweep targets crypto marketing

As might be expected, FINRA appears to be aligning itself with the SEC in its assertion of jurisdiction over investments that may not, at the end of the day, be deemed securities. ...more

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Crypto Executives Meet With House Committee on Finance to Discuss Regulation and the Future of the Digital Assets Market

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The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services (Committee) met last Wednesday to discuss the rapidly growing cryptocurrency market exchange and the regulatory landscape that currently governs it. Executives from six major...more

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SEC Commissioner Peirce Proposes Safe Harbor for Blockchain Developers

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Speaking at the International Blockchain Congress in Chicago on February 6, 2020, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce proposed a safe harbor from U.S. securities laws so that developers of blockchain protocols could offer and sell...more

Perkins Coie

Blockchain Week in Review - January 2020 #3

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U.S. Developments - Federal and State Regulatory Developments - Bill in Hawaii State Senate Addresses Digital Assets Including Authorization for Banks to Serve as Qualified Custodians - SB 2594 before the Hawaii...more

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2019 Digital Asset Regulatory Look Back (US Edition)

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It was a year filled with tantalizing tidbits and many loose ends. 2019 marked the 10th year since blockchain technology was released into the wild by its still unknown inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, who mined the first bitcoin...more

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Crypto and the Regulators: Will the Revolution Get Rules?

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Crypto currency began with the notion of getting “off the grid” – escaping the regulators and not being regulated. Over time that notion has transmuted. Now platforms trading crypto assets proclaim that the “revolution needs...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Conducting a Token Offering Under Regulation A

This white paper discusses considerations related to conducting a token offering under Regulation A under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”). The benefit of this strategy is that it can allow broad...more

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Token Taxonomy Act – Exempting Digital Tokens from U.S. Securities Laws

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On April 10, 2019, U.S. Representatives Warren Davidson (R-OH) and Darren Soto (D-FL) reintroduced the Token Taxonomy Act (“TTA”) in the effort to amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to...more

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A Taxonomy of the Proposed Token Taxonomy Act

On December 20, 2018, a bipartisan pair of Congressmen, Warren Davidson (R-OH) and Darren Soto (D-FL), introduced bill H.R. 7356 to enact the Token Taxonomy Act (the “Act”). The Act proposes several amendments to federal...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Security Tokens — A Superior Platform for Securities Holding and Trading

The use of digital securities or security tokens has coincided with the explosion of crypto-currencies and efforts to establish Internet-traded coins or tokens with utility as a form of currency. Lost amidst the enthusiasm...more

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SEC Director Makes Groundbreaking Speech about Blockchain Token Sales

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The Director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance William Hinman gave a speech in which he discussed whether a digital asset originally offered as a security can become something other than a security over time. The...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Blockchain Technology May Enable Tracing in Securities Act Litigation

Blockchain technology is creating an ecosystem designed to accommodate peer-to-peer transactions without a trusted administrator or intermediary. On a blockchain platform, direct transactions are underpinned by blockchain's...more

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SEC files its first enforcement action against alleged sponsors of initial coin offerings

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On September 29, 2017 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against the sponsors of two “initial coin offerings” (ICOs)...more

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DAO and the Art of Securities Regulation: SEC Clarifies that Digital Tokens May Be “Securities”

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The rapid rise of distributed ledger technology and the spate of recent initial coin offerings (“ICOs”) have focused attention on whether, and in what circumstances, virtual currencies and digital tokens may be securities...more

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SEC Finds ICOs May Be Subject to Registration Requirements

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Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and other digital currency financing events have enjoyed explosive growth in 2017, with hundreds of millions of dollars invested with little to no regulation or government oversight. That era...more

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Goodwin Alert: SEC Issues Long-Awaited Guidance

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Tuesday, July 25, 2017, that Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and other market participants offering digital assets by “virtual” organizations may be subject to the...more

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SEC: Certain Initial Coin Offerings Are Securities Offerings

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SEC’s investigative report sends clear message that virtual transactions using innovative technologies are subject to the application of securities laws. Introduction - On July 25, 2017, the US Securities and Exchange...more

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SEC Determines That Certain Virtual Tokens Are Securities

On July 26, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an investigative report concluding that certain tokens (or coins) offered and sold by The DAO, a virtual organization, were securities under the Securities...more

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