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Weekly Blockchain Blog - June 2025 #2

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Crypto Payments Companies Achieve Licenses, Enhance Product Offerings - A U.S. digital asset payments company, MoonPay, recently announced that it has been granted a BitLicense by the New York Department of Financial...more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - September 2024 #3

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Leading U.S. Crypto Companies Announce Multiple New Products, Integrations - A major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange recently announced the launch of cbBTC – an ERC20 token backed 1:1 by bitcoin held by the exchange. The new...more

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Crypto Products Launch; Bitcoin Ordinals Project Sells Out; U.S. EIA to Survey Miners; OFAC and DOJ Announce Crypto Actions;...

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New Crypto Indices Launch; Crypto Firms Announce Product Integrations - According to a recent press release, SIX, a major Swiss stock exchange and global financial information provider, has launched new SIX Reference Rate...more

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New Crypto Initiatives Launch; California Governor Signs Digital Financial Assets Law; Bank Regulators Address Crypto Risks;...

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Financial Firm Completes CBDC Pilot; Exchanges Launch P2P Trading Platform - A major U.S. financial services firm recently published a press release announcing that it has “successfully demonstrated capabilities of a new...more

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Court Upholds Tornado Cash Sanctions; New Crypto Products Launch; IRS Proposes Digital Asset Regulations; Crypto Enforcement and...

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District Court Upholds Tornado Cash Sanctions, DOJ Charges Founders - On August 17, a Texas federal court found that Tornado Cash, a crypto mixer (which obscures the source of crypto transactions) is an entity that can be...more

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White House Issues Statement on Crypto; Bitcoin ETF Rejected; OFAC Sanctions Public Keys; Regulators Address Digital Assets;...

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White House Addresses Crypto Risks; Blockchain Firm Wins Air Force Contract - The White House issued a statement last week briefly outlining the Biden administration’s road map to mitigate the risks of cryptocurrencies,...more

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Crypto Products Launch; FSB, OECD Address Crypto Regulation and Tax; US Exchange Fined $24M; DOJ and SEC Actions Continue; Major...

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New Crypto Products Launch in Custody, Cloud Collaborations and Stablecoins - This week, a major U.S. financial institution announced that its Digital Asset Custody platform is now live in the United States. According to...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Crypto and Russia Sanctions: A Primer and Survival Guide For Crypto Companies

The recent comprehensive economic sanctions by the U.S. and other nations against Russia has propelled the crypto community onto the geo-political stage in a major way. As with other forms of payment and methods of money...more

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OFAC Puts Virtual Currency Industry on Notice

In a new Sanctions Compliance Guide, The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Treasury reiterates that compliance obligations apply equally to transactions involving virtual currencies and those involving...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

OFAC Adds Iranian Bitcoin Exchangers’ Names and Wallet Addresses to SDN List, Ushers in “New Approach” to Sanctions Enforcement

• On November 28, 2018, OFAC designated two Iran-based individuals who helped exchange cryptocurrency (bitcoin) into fiat currency on behalf of alleged ransomware perpetrators who targeted U.S. businesses and municipal...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging the Week - November 2018 #4

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s view that most cryptoassets issued as part of initial coin offerings and presales to ICOs are securities was challenged by a federal court in California when it denied the agency’s...more

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OFAC Identifies Digital Currency Addresses in Sanctions Designations and Provides FAQs on Digital Currency Compliance

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On November 28, the Treasury Department sanctioned two Iran-based individuals for exchanging bitcoin into Iranian rials on behalf of malicious cyber actors involved in the SamSam ransomware scheme. Notably, this action marks...more

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