Navigating 2025: Federal Legislative and Regulatory Updates on Stablecoins and Decentralized Finance — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Crackdown on DeFi? An Examination of the CFTC's Enforcement Action Against Uniswap — The Crypto Exchange
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
Analyzing the Treasury's Illicit Finance Risk Assessment of Decentralized Finance - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: Exploring DAOs
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: A Look at the Treasury Department’s April 2023 Report on Decentralized Finance or “DeFi”
Podcast: Governing an Algorithm? The DeFi and Crypto Enforcement Landscape [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 50]
Podcast: How does DeFi impact insurance, employment, and litigation? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 48]
Podcast: DeFi and Tax: How are digital currencies treated by the IRS? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 47]
Podcast: DeFi and Digital Assets: What do the UCC Amendments Mean for Business Transactions? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 46]
From Station Wagon to Lamborghini: One CypherPunk’s Journey from Cryptoanarchy to Solana Cross-Chain NFT Innovations
Video: Introduction A Deep Dive into DeFi Decentralized Finance
All About Web3: The Regulatory Outlook for Cryptocurrency
Crypto Enforcement Is Here, and Always Has Been
The Walden Pond - Responsible Innovation in Crypto and Compliance
JONES DAY TALKS®: Crypto and DeFi Regulation: It's About to Get Serious
Crypto and DeFi Platforms: Aggressive SEC Enforcement on the Way?
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The House Committees on Financial Services and Agriculture have unveiled a discussion draft for a new comprehensive U.S. crypto market structure bill, aiming to establish clear regulatory boundaries between the U.S....more
In a significant development for the digital asset industry, Republican lawmakers from the U.S. House Committees on Financial Services and Agriculture have released a comprehensive discussion draft of proposed legislation...more
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
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance issued a new statement about SEC staff’s experience with SEC disclosure requirements for crypto-related offerings that qualify as securities. The...more
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
On March 25, Stuart Alderoty, Ripple Labs’ chief legal officer, announced that Ripple intends to drop its cross-appeal against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that is currently pending before the U.S. Court of...more
Among the biggest news that dropped in the past two weeks was the Trump administration’s announcement of a national Bitcoin reserve plan, a move whose mere discussion marks a significant shift from the federal government’s...more
U.S. Digital Asset Companies Continue Product Launches, Market Expansion - U.S. nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea recently announced the launch of its new OS2 digital asset trading platform, which expands into...more
There has rarely been a larger or more widely distributed financial market that existed in a more uncertain regulatory context than cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance (DeFi) at the start of 2025. In the past several...more
On November 14, a coalition of 18 states, led by Utah Attorney General (AG) Sean Reyes, the outgoing chairman of the Republican AGs Association, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and...more
The last two weeks have seen a flurry of Congressional hearings addressing key digital asset issues, alongside several noteworthy consent judgments against industry participants from the SEC. These fast-paced developments are...more
The focus in Web3 law the past few weeks has been on jurisdictional issues when litigating matters involving borderless digital asset transactions. This is expected to be an ongoing issue, as courts work through these...more
On December 23, 2023, BarnBridge DAO (“BarnBridge”) and its founders, Tayler Ward and Troy Murray, agreed to settle charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). BarnBridge violated Sections5(a) and 5(c)...more
The Blockchain Bi-Weekly presented by the Polsinelli Blockchain+ team is a rundown of some of the key stories in the Web3, blockchain and crypto ecosystems curated by our attorneys navigating the intersections of code, smart...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC or the Commission) voted on Friday, April 14, 2023, to reopen the comment period for previously proposed amendments to Rule 3b-16 under the Exchange Act of 1934 (the...more
There are those in the crypto sphere who, despite the strong warnings of several federal agencies, believe there can be no enforcement without crypto specific regulation. This is not the case. There are also those who believe...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") has renamed and expanded a unit within its Division of Enforcement to address protection of investors in crypto markets. The “Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit,” which also has...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced yesterday that it would hire 20 additional positions to the Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit (formerly known as the Cyber Unit) within the Division of Enforcement, increasing...more
On January 26, 2022, the SEC proposed rule changes that would greatly expand the scope of Regulation ATS, the regulatory regime that governs alternative trading systems (“ATSs”). Applicability to the fixed income markets was...more
Thoughts on Recent SEC statements and Action on Enforcement Related to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) - On November 10, 2021 the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) announced that it had halted...more
On November 10, 2021, the SEC announced that it had instituted proceedings against a Wyoming-based decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) to halt its registration of two digital tokens, alleging that disclosure in the...more
In any classic securities regulation textbook, you’ll be sure to find a chapter called “Definition of a Security.” Besides your typical bonds and stocks, which are easily identifiable as securities, the most infamous (and a...more
With new types of digital assets and related business on the rise, federal authorities have been busy investigating. Recently, the SEC, FinCEN and the CFTC have imposed some notable settlements involving cryptocurrency...more