In a ruling eagerly awaited by the cryptocurrency industry, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that immutable smart contracts on the Tornado Cash crypto-transaction software protocol are not “property” subject...more
The House of Representatives and the Senate took the first steps in response to the collapse of FTX this week. The Senate Agriculture Committee has announced a hearing at which the chair of the Commodity Futures Trading...more
Bahamian regulators froze accounts belonging to FTX, one of the world’s largest centralized cryptocurrency exchanges, on November 10. Shortly thereafter, and amid large-scale customer withdrawals, the founder and chief...more
In cases involving digital assets, especially those with anonymous, unlocatable, or international parties, service of process can pose an existential challenge. Recent decisions arising out of cryptocurrency-related...more