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Virtual Currency (aka Digital Currency or Digital Money) is a type of currency or medium of exchange that is not issued by any government nor guaranteed by a government currency. Despite lacking legal tender status, Virtual Currency is still traded and exchanged in some environments, typically online environments or communities. Bitcoin is the most well-known form of Virtual Currency. less -

Blockchain+ Bi-Weekly: July 2024 #2

Polsinelli on 7/25/2024

While the nation was preoccupied with the significant developments in the Presidential race, advocates and promoters of the blockchain ecosystem were particularly attentive to the news, given the perception that the current...more

Commissioner Comments on Tokenization

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 6/17/2024

Commissioner Uyeda spoke at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s 30th Annual Institute for Securities Market Growth and Development. Commissioner Uyeda focused on the need to root out bad actors and promote transparent...more

Treasury Cries “Uncle” to Crypto Industry: Crypto Reporting Delayed

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 1/24/2024

On January 16th, the IRS published Announcement 2024-4 (the “Announcement”), postponing certain reporting requirements for large crypto transactions which were set to go into effect for the 2024 tax year. Persons engaged in...more

FDIC's Annual Risk Review Includes Crypto Risks for First Time

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 8/21/2023

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) published its annual Risk Review this past Monday, providing an overview of banking conditions for 2022 through early 2023. The FDIC started providing Risk Reviews to the...more

Blockchain+ Bi-Weekly - June 2023 #2

Polsinelli on 6/30/2023

The Blockchain Bi-Weekly presented by the Polsinelli Blockchain+ team is a rundown of some of the key stories in the Web3, blockchain and crypto ecosystems curated by our attorneys navigating the intersections of code, smart...more

The Law Decree on tokenised financial instruments converted into law

A&O Shearman on 5/24/2023

On 15 May 2023, Law no. 52 of 10 May 2023, converting the Law Decree no. 25/2023 (DFIL) concerning the issuance and transfer of digital financial instruments into law, was published in the Italian Official Gazette and entered...more

SEC Reported to Add Another Dimension to its Cryptocurrency Enforcement Push: Insider Trading

Dechert LLP on 7/6/2022

Key Takeaways - According to sources with firsthand knowledge, the SEC is conducting an industry-wide inquiry into alleged insider trading activities of cryptocurrency exchanges. Insider trading occurs when a corporate...more

The Crypto Industry Is Talking Tax, and the Senate Is Listening

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 6/23/2022

On June 7, 2022, U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) introduced the Lummis-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act (the “Act”), a comprehensive legislative scheme for the regulation of...more

Breaking Down the New Bitcoin Bill: An Overview of the Lummis-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP on 6/9/2022

On January 3, 2009, the pseudonymous “Satoshi Nakamoto” mined the first bitcoin. In the years following bitcoin’s creation, the price of a single bitcoin has increased exponentially, from essentially zero to an all-time high...more

California Governor Orders Agencies to Create Transparent Regulatory Framework for Blockchain and Digital Assets

Jones Day on 5/11/2022

California's governor issued an executive order requiring state agencies, led by the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, to create a "transparent" regulatory framework for blockchain technologies and digital...more

Breakthrough in Italian Cryptocurrency Regulation: Statutory Registration for Providers and Exchangers

Jones Day on 3/17/2022

The Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance ("MEF") issued a new decree ("Decree") requiring that virtual asset/currency service providers promptly enroll in a soon-to-be established special section of the register held by...more

Crypto Love is a Battlefield

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP on 2/25/2022

The battle over blockchain technology and digital assets bears a striking resemblance to the debate over the potential of the internet in the mid-1990s. Where critics see a passing fad with little actual utility or a lawless...more

Cryptocurrency Primer

Bilzin Sumberg on 1/26/2022

We’ve previously written about the push for greater regulation of digital currency and a growing number of lawsuits targeting cryptocurrency companies and their celebrity endorsers. Notwithstanding cryptocurrencies’...more

UK Financial Conduct Authority Consults on Its Financial Promotion Rules for Cryptoassets and Other High-Risk Investments

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law on 1/25/2022

On 19 January 2022, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published a consultation paper (CP22/2) (the “Consultation”) setting out its proposals to strengthen its financial promotion rules for high-risk investments...more

Regulating Crypto: Cryptocurrency Executives Head to Capitol Hill

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP on 1/11/2022

A recent study found that 16 percent of Americans have invested in, traded or used cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ether. This widespread use, coupled with the cryptocurrency industry having limited to no regulatory...more

The Tangled Web of Proposed Crypto Regulation

Foodman CPAs & Advisors on 12/14/2021

Don’t Expect Coherent Rules to Align Any Time Soon - Multiple enforcement agencies within the US government agree that the $2.5 trillion crypto industry needs regulation. And heads of the largest crypto companies have told...more

Why Are Crypto Investors Still Buying?

Foodman CPAs & Advisors on 12/14/2021

Danger signs abound - Despite its volatile and speculative nature, a single bitcoin is trading at around $61,134 (11/5/21.) Demand is growing exponentially, despite multiple danger signs. ...more

Pre-Enforcement Challenges—A Vital Tool for Regulated Parties in the United States

Jones Day on 12/13/2021

The digital asset industry has now met the regulatory state. Those interested in building digital asset businesses that operate in the United States thus need to be aware of a vital tool for resisting regulatory overreach by...more

U.S. Federal Banking Regulators Announce Plan for Crypto-Asset Policy Initiative

Jones Day on 11/29/2021

The interagency "policy sprints" are designed to give banks guidance on how to navigate crypto-assets moving forward. On November 23, 2021, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance...more

“Hashing” It Out: Federal Jury Decides Some Cryptocurrency Products are not Securities

Dechert LLP on 11/19/2021

Whether a cryptocurrency product is a security is an issue with serious regulatory consequences. In recent years, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has taken a broad position that various crypto assets are...more

SEC Commissioner to DeFi: Follow the Law or Face Enforcement

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 11/12/2021

In a recent article, SEC Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw encouraged decentralized finance (DeFi) participants to voluntarily comply with securities law regulations, in particular those governing risk disclosure, warning...more

What to Know About the DOJ’s National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team

The Volkov Law Group on 11/12/2021

In early October, U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the creation of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (“NCET”). The NCET will handle the Department’s investigations...more

DFPI Issues Cryptic Cryptocurrency Warning

Allen Matkins on 10/26/2021

The California Department of Financial Protection is warning consumers that "companies that may be engaging in unlicensed activity and/or falsely advertising cryptocurrency products and services"...more

China Bans Crypto Currencies and Related Services

Burr & Forman on 9/24/2021

The People’s Bank of China (“PBOC”) announced this morning that it is banning crypto currencies and related services, including “trading, order matching, token issuance and derivatives for virtual currencies are strictly...more

SEC Chair Gensler Signals Greater Regulation of Cryptocurrency Under Existing Authorities

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 9/22/2021

On Sept. 14, Gary Gensler, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, testified before the Senate Banking Committee that the agency has authority using the existing, “broad” definition of a “security” to regulate the...more

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