CHPS Podcast Episode 2: Bitcoin in the Halls of Power
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 66 – The U.S. Strategic Reserve and the Emerging Multipolar Crypto World + Recent Developments in US Virtual Asset Regulation with Henri Arslanian and Andrew Fei
A Conversation with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce
Crackdown on DeFi? An Examination of the CFTC's Enforcement Action Against Uniswap — The Crypto Exchange
Ep. 11 - Crypto & Consumer Protection: Insights from a Former FTC Official
Crypto & Politics: Insights from Former Congressman David McIntosh
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Nation: A Government Insider’s View
FINCast Ep. 38 – The Future of Crypto: A Conversation with Coinbase’s Faryar Shirzad
No Password Required: CEO of Paragon Cyber Solutions, Family-Night Game Champion, and Calculated-Risk Taker
Creating A User Friendly Blockchain with Andrew Levine, CEO, Koinos Group
From Station Wagon to Lamborghini: One CypherPunk’s Journey from Cryptoanarchy to Solana Cross-Chain NFT Innovations
GILTI Conscience Podcast | Blockchain for Beginners: Basic Tax Issues for Digital Assets
Introducing The Crypto Exchange Podcast
An Introduction to Crypto for Financial Services Professionals
The Justice Insiders: Largest Bitcoin Seizure in DOJ History – Crypto Can Be Traced!
JONES DAY TALKS®: Takeaways from a Landmark Cryptocurrency Antitrust Case
This Week in FCPA-Episode 252 – the Musk and Bitcoin edition
Episode 181 — Cryptocurrency Review: Matt Stankiewicz Discusses the SEC’s Case against Ripple, Predictions under the Biden Administration, and Bitcoin’s Corporate Surge
Business and Legal Issues Around Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
Nota Bene Episode 58: The Advantages of Using Cryptocurrencies and Other Blockchain Technologies for Business Growth with James Gatto
A few months ago, in our client alert titled “Mr. Bitcoin Goes to Washington,” we discussed the cryptocurrency industry’s significant political resurgence in the wake of the 2024 election. We not only forecasted a more...more
Actions come as Trump Administration hosts digital asset summit, creates bitcoin reserve, and pushes stablecoin legislation - Recent actions by federal agencies and the White House could herald a sea change in US policy...more
Each week of the first 100 days of the new Trump administration, we will publish updates on key federal financial services regulatory and related developments. This week, we review the following developments as of Wednesday: ...more
Executive Order Establishes Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, Digital Asset Stockpile - On March 6, President Trump issued an executive order (EO), Establishment of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and United States Digital Asset...more
President Trump campaigned on the promise to make the United States the “crypto capital” of the world. In his first days in office, he took steps to advance that goal, including by signing an executive order designed to...more
Editor's Note: The following newsletter provides a roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements taken by a federal and/or state financial services regulatory agency, specifically...more
On the one hand, the year ended where it began. The legislation on stabelecoins and market structure that would provide a regulatory framework for digital assets has still not been enacted into law. And Securities and...more
Exchange Reaches Agreement to Sell Assets; New Crypto Products Launch - In a press release this week, Voyager Digital, a cryptocurrency exchange that recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, announced that it selected the...more
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sent shockwaves across the cryptocurrency industry when it issued a $1.25 million settlement order with Kraken, one of the industry’s largest market participants. The next day,...more
In this Issue. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) invited public comment on proposed changes to Regulation II, better known as the Durbin Amendment, regarding network availability for...more
Many investors, traditional and progressive, are looking hard at cryptocurrency investments as a way to diversify their portfolios. However, there are still multiple known “unknowns” about this new market, including the...more
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) released its highly anticipated Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework (the “Framework”). The Framework was developed as part of the Attorney General’s Cyber-Digital...more
A government inquiry can result in serious consequences for a company or individual. Our new podcast series, Voluntary Disclosure—brought to you by the lawyers in our investigations, enforcement, and white collar practice—is...more
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin remarked before a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee three weeks ago that “significant new requirements at FinCEN” for cryptocurrencies would be introduced quickly, in response to...more
• The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) staff made official statements regarding when a token may or may no longer be a security • The SEC continued to bring actions related to cryptocurrency offerings against...more
Notwithstanding Lloyd’s assurances that the rumors of his demise are premature, Goldman has cleared the path forward for David Solomon (aka, one of its current co-Presidents, aka, DJ D-Sol) to assume the CEO position when Mr....more
ECB Chief Mario Draghi’s having none of the US Treasury Secretary’s recent weak-dollar talk, accusing the US official, in not so many words, of “violating agreements among nations against starting currency wars”....more
A putative class action filed last week is accusing 25 prominent banks—including Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and Barclays—of “conspiring to rig the market for securities” sold by the US Treasury in their roles as primary...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently charged the co-owner of two Bitcoin-related websites for publicly offering shares in the ventures without registering the securities under the Securities Act of 1933 (the...more
Bitcoin and other decentralized, math-based virtual currencies emerged in 2013 as nascent challenges to traditional payment systems, drawing widespread public attention, venture capital investment, and regulatory scrutiny....more