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Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Crypto Brief - Lowenstein Crypto Newsletter - May 8, 2025

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

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Draft legislation proposes shift in regulatory oversight of digital assets

On May 5, 2025, the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee and Agriculture Committee released a draft bill that would shift oversight of most digital assets from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Cybersecurity Trends in the Digital Asset Space

After years of regulatory uncertainty, the Trump administration has signaled a new approach to digital assets, including by establishing a working group focused on digital assets and nominating crypto-friendly chairs to the...more

Paul Hastings LLP

New Legislation Introduced, Federal Reserve Revises Guidance and SEC Hosts Custody Roundtable

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Congress is back in session this week after a two-week recess. Several new pieces of legislation were introduced, including one directing the secretary of commerce to spearhead federal blockchain policy initiatives, another...more

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Event Contracts Versus Sportsbooks: Charting the Legal Divide in U.S. Gambling Law

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Peer‑to‑peer sports event contracts have surged in popularity. Kalshi, a U.S.-based prediction market, reported that its sports event contracts yielded $249 million through the first two rounds of the NCAA Basketball...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Crypto Brief - Lowenstein Crypto Newsletter - April 24, 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

DLA Piper

Blockchain and Digital Assets News and Trends – April 2025

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This periodic bulletin is designed to help companies identify important legal developments governing the use and acceptance of blockchain technology, smart contracts, and digital assets. While the use cases for blockchain...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Dramatic Shifts Point to Foundation for a Comprehensive Digital Asset Framework in the US

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In just a few weeks, the landscape for crypto policy has continued to shift dramatically. The president signed into law the repeal of an IRS rule that would have expanded the definition of “broker” to capture DeFi protocols;...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

FinReg Currents - Week 13

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

Ropes & Gray LLP

SEC Crypto Roundtables Illuminate Regulatory Path for Digital Assets and Trading Platforms

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On April 10, 2025, the SEC’s newly formed Crypto Task Force held the second of its promised series of roundtables in the SEC’s “Spring Sprint Toward Crypto Clarity” initiative. Titled “Between a Block and a Hard Place:...more

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

K&L Gates LLP

United States: Staff Cedes Jurisdiction Over Certain Stablecoins

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On 4 April 2025, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (Division) issued a statement (Statement) providing that the offer and sale of certain “Covered Stablecoins” do not involve the offer and sale of securities within...more

BakerHostetler

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

Morrison & Foerster LLP

The Department of Justice Announces New Enforcement Policy for Digital Assets

On April 7, 2025, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memo (the “Blanche Memo”) announcing the Trump administration’s Department of Justice (“DOJ”) refocus of enforcement policies related to investigations and...more

A&O Shearman

SEC staff takes a position on the security status of USD-backed stablecoins

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On April 4, 2025, the staff of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) issued a statement concluding that a narrow class of USD-backed, fully reserved, non-yield-bearing stablecoins (“Covered Stablecoins”) do...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

SEC Provides Stablecoin Guidance Amid Legislative Developments, Dan Davis, Alex Kim

On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance issued guidance clarifying when certain stablecoins may not constitute securities under the federal securities laws.[1] This...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Daily Financial Regulation Update -- Tuesday, April 8, 2025

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April 4, 2025 - The commissioner of the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) has proposed regulations to implement provisions of the Digital Financial Assets Law and amend the Money Transmission Act....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

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

New Regulatory Priorities Spring Into Focus, April 2025 - Business As Usual for Digital Asset Derivatives – CFTC Advisories...

Friday, March 27, 2025, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) formally withdrew two crypto-related staff advisories, Staff Advisory No. 18-14 (advisory with respect to virtual currency derivative product...more

BakerHostetler

Weekly Blockchain Blog - April 2025

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U.S. Financial Services Firms Announce Digital Asset Initiatives - A major U.S. financial services company and operator of global financial exchanges and clearinghouses recently announced an agreement with the issuer of the...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Crypto Brief - Lowenstein Crypto Newsletter - April 3, 2025

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

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

The Desk: April Edition

March is over and all of our brackets are busted. We hope you have been enjoying, Moore & Van Allen’s very own, Jay Bilas’ coverage on ESPN. In this month’s newsletter we will walk you through the CFTC’s continued updates on...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

CFTC Staff Withdraws Advisory on Virtual Currency Derivative Product Listings

On March 28, 2025, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight (DMO) and Division of Clearing and Risk (DCR) announced in CFTC Letter 25-07 that they are withdrawing CFTC Staff Advisory...more

Polsinelli

Blockchain+ Bi-Weekly; Highlights of the Last Two Weeks in Web3 Law: March 27, 2025

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The past two weeks brought some notable progress for the industry, though it still often feels like “regulation by lack of enforcement” rather than a truly proactive approach. The SEC clarified that most proof-of-work mining...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Crypto Brief - Lowenstein Crypto Newsletter - March 20, 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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