Last year, the House passed the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT 21) to close gaps created by current laws that did not anticipate the emergence of digital assets. FIT 21 seeks to divide...more
The new Trump administration took numerous actions in its first week, including an order directing the creation of a working group on Digital Asset Markets. The president’s other actions touch on numerous areas of the...more
2/3/2025
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President Trump’s crypto executive order (the Crypto Executive Order) was a first step in the Trump Administration’s articulation of a policy on promoting the lawful use of blockchain technology. It remains to be seen whether...more
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On June 28, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filed a complaint alleging that Consensys Software, Inc. (“Consensys”), the developer of the MetaMask self-hosted wallet, acted as an unregistered broker...more