Powering Sustainable Crypto: A General Counsel’s View
From Paper to Digital: The California DMV's Leap Into Blockchain Technology — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Dogecoin’s Day in Court
A Tale of Two Crypto Cases
Unpacking the Lummis-Gillibrand Payment Stablecoin Act: Implications for the Digital Asset Industry — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Navigating the Regulatory Waters: The SEC's Wells Notice to Uniswap and its Impact on DeFi — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Will Resiliency Carry the Digital Asset Sector Through 2024: Navigating the 2023 Regulatory Landscape — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Understanding the CFPB's Proposed Digital Payments Larger Participants Rule and Its Implications for Digital Assets — The Consumer Finance Podcast
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What is sufficient originality for copyright? What is substantial similarity for copyright infringement? The latest artificial intelligence and intellectual property cases – authors lost contributory
Unraveling the Crypto Code: California's New DFAL Explained – The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Episode 302 -- Matt Stankiewicz on DOJ's Massive Criminal Settlement with Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao
The Justice Insiders Podcast: The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: Defendants Testifying (Poorly), FOMO, and How to Actually Blame Lawyers
FINCast Ep. 38 – The Future of Crypto: A Conversation with Coinbase’s Faryar Shirzad
Analyzing the Treasury's Illicit Finance Risk Assessment of Decentralized Finance - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: Exploring DAOs
Current Landscape of Cryptocurrency Regulation and Enforcement - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Current Landscape of Cryptocurrency Regulation and Enforcement - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: A Deep Dive Into Cryptocurrency and its Risks to Investors and the Banking System, with Arthur E. Wilmarth, George Washington University Law School
A Lawyer’s Guide to Blockchain and Cryptocurrency | Nelson Ebaugh | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Nikhil Pradhan (Senior Counsel, Boston) recently joined Zebec Networks’ Future of Money podcast to explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and the blockchain ecosystem with Parth Shah. The below episode transcript...more
American Conference Institute’s 3rd Annual Summit on Women Leaders in IP Law returns for another exciting year with curated content showcasing powerful women in intellectual property. During this IP-focused conference, women...more
In Short - The Situation: Regulatory "sandboxes" are trending. They represent a unique approach to regulation that permits selected companies to test and experiment with new and innovative products and services....more
The internet is buzzing with content from market and technology analysts explaining the evolution of the internet from Web 1.0 to Web 3.0, as well as providing insights into how Web 3.0 may impact the collection, control, and...more
As we noted in our post last year on the state of blockchain patent litigation, thousands of blockchain-related patent applications are being filed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Continuing our analysis of the...more
Katya Gozias welcomes back “Cloud” pioneer Tim Vasko for Part 2 of Off the Chain: Innovations and Best Practices in Crypto and Blockchain. The two discuss the transformative nature of blockchain and digital assets; how the...more
Showcasing Powerful Women in Intellectual Property! ACI’s Summit on Women Leaders in IP Law will bring together women in Intellectual Property roles to explore industry trends and other important factors impacting today’s...more
Our team is pleased to announce an important publication on crypto developments and future stablecoin regulation in the United States. Here we provide a brief overview of stablecoins, outline various risks and policy concerns...more
Everything has a life cycle. Bacteria, insects, people, civilizations, galaxies - all are born, live and pass into eternity eventually. So it goes with technologies....more
Last week, Goodwin’s Insurtech team traveled to Las Vegas for InsureTech Connect, the world’s largest annual insurance technology conference, which brought together key players and thought-leaders to showcase new innovation...more
Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies were already exploring the promise of blockchain to modernize certain aspects of their supply chains. Traditional supply chains can be inefficient, data intensive and...more
Letter from Our Co-Chairs - As the digital transformation of financial markets accelerates at breakneck speeds, fintech presents significant opportunities and challenges for both investors and innovators around the world. ...more
The US derivatives regulator continues to foster FinTech adoption and leadership in US markets. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has affirmed its commitment to engaging the fast-moving financial...more
A biweekly update on blockchain technology applications, distributed energy resources, and other innovative technologies in the energy sector....more
Blockchain technology adoption has increased rapidly in recent years. The proliferation of tools for big data analysis and artificial intelligence based processing pushes organizations to collect and make available large...more
In June, two seemingly unrelated events took place: during the first week of June the SEC filed suit in federal court against the company Kik Interactive, which raised about 100 million dollars in the summer of 2017 through...more
We’ve previously written that the Token Taxonomy Act first introduced to Congress by Representatives Warren Davidson (R-OH) and Darren Soto (D-FL) on December 20, 2018, was a welcome legislative initiative designed to provide...more
On 18 March 2019, the Federal Australian Government announced its plan to establish the national blockchain roadmap (Roadmap) which intends to focus developing regulation, skills and capacity building, innovation, investment...more
Jones Day's Margaret Lyle discusses the approach various state legislatures are taking with respect to blockchain, which is to support the technology and foster entrepreneurship. She also describes how states are dealing with...more
More than just one of the hottest buzzwords of 2018, “blockchain” is “a quiet revolution.” The impact of blockchain technology on our day-to-day lives is still uncertain. But one thing is clear: The opportunity is ripe for...more
On their own, blockchain technology, open source software, and patents each present legal issues that are often complex and frequently misunderstood. When combined, the complexity and misunderstandings of these three topics...more
Over the past couple of years, the crypto industry has come under heavy scrutiny from skeptical regulators seeking to root out fraud and protect investors amid the initial coin offering boom that generated over $4 billion in...more
On Sept. 28, 2018, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill (“SB”) 838 and Assembly Bill (“AB”) 2658, which together will spur more innovation in and adoption of blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies. More...more
Recap of a recent all-day conference on Blockchain technologies, the FinTech regulatory environment, and the role that lawyers play in guiding startup founders as they balance the pace of innovation with their compliance...more
In an effort to promote the development of new financial technology (fintech) products, Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), announced last week the creation of the Office of...more