Perhaps unsurprisingly, blockchain and cryptocurrency figure large in a list of popular FinTech reads on JD Supra in 2018. Here, for your interest, is what that list looks like. Good work, smart folks, interesting times:

1. The Distributed Ledger: Blockchain, Digital Assets and Smart Contracts - November 2018 - by attorneys at Skadden
2. New York State Department of Financial Services Eases Backlog and Approves More BitLicense Applications - by Jonathan Mollod at Proskauer 
3. Global Regulatory Update for Cryptocurrency and Initial Coin Offerings - by attorneys at Holland & Knight
4. Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, Featuring Articles on FCA Updates to Position Limits and Benchmark Regulations; HM Treasury Preparations for Brexit - by Kimberly Broder, Carolyn H. Jackson, Neil Robson, Nathaniel W. Lalone, and John Ahern at Katten
5. New York Attorney General Launches Fact-Finding Inquiry Into Trading Platforms for Virtual Currencies - by Amelia Toy Rudolph at Eversheds Sutherland
6. Regulators and Courts Clarify Virtual Currency Regulation, but Overall Framework Remains Murky - by attorneys at Shearman & Sterling
7. Virtual Currency / FinTech Week-in-Review (October 15-19, 2018) - by Steven Merriman at Perkins Coie
8. Financial Regulatory Observer - February 2018: The year of blockchain: Global legal framework begins to take form - by Ajita Shukla, Kevin Petrasic, Adam Chernichaw, and Matthew Bornfreund at White & Case
9. Financial Services Weekly Roundup - October 2018 #2 - by attorneys at Goodwin
10. WSGR Fintech Update - January 2018 - by Susan Gault-Brown, John Sullivan, and Aaron Friedman

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