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Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Crypto Brief - Lowenstein Crypto Newsletter - April 10, 2025

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Lowenstein Crypto advises leading digital asset and cryptocurrency projects, exchanges, and trading firms. Our practice covers regulatory advice, transactions and structuring advice, investigations, and adversarial matters...more

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DOJ’s New Policy on Prosecutions to Focus on Bad Actors, Not Digital Asset Industry

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On April 7, 2025, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced in a memorandum to all DOJ employees (the “Blanche Memorandum”) that the DOJ “will stop participating in regulation by prosecution” and “no longer pursue...more

A&O Shearman

Further suite of technical standards supplementing MiCAR published in the OJ

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Six Commission Delegated Regulations supplementing Regulation 2023/114 (the EU Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation) (MiCAR) have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ), namely: Commission...more

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Heightened Surveillance And Regulatory Requirements For Virtual Currency Derivatives Exchanges Withdrawn

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On March 28, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) Division of Market Oversight (“DMO”) and Division of Clearing and Risk (“DCR”) withdrew Staff Advisory No. 18-14, Advisory with respect to Virtual Currency...more

Carey Olsen

Amendments to the regulatory framework for virtual assets in the Cayman Islands

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On 1 April 2025, several key updates will be made to the framework for the regulation of virtual assets in the Cayman Islands. These updates include the introduction and commencement of the VASP licencing framework for...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Applying NMS Principles to Crypto Markets

Applying Reg. NMS to crypto exchanges could enhance transparency through reforms including a consolidated market data feed and equal data access regulations. A crypto-specific Securities Information Processor (SIP) could...more

Dechert LLP

Application of Second Part of MiCA - Regulation of CASPs and Other Public Offering of Crypto Assets

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The Second Part of MiCA entered into application on December 30, 2024 – CASPs and public offers of crypto-assets other than ARTs and EMTs fall within the scope of MiCA - MiCA regulates the issuance of crypto-assets in the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

New Senate Crypto Bill Would Limit SEC Regulatory Role in Favor of CFTC

A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate last week seeks “to bring crypto assets within the regulatory perimeter” by granting oversight responsibility to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for most forms...more

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