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This blog is designed to give attorneys and non-attorneys insight into Web3 legal topics from a user who happens to also be an attorney specializing in intellectual property, tech transactions, and complex commercial litigation. All views are my own and do not represent the views of the law firm I work at or the other attorneys at that firm.

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Off the Blockchain+, December 8-15, 2025

This was quite possibly the busiest week in terms of major crypto legal developments since I started practicing in the space in 2020. It is hard to be upset, as they are (almost) all positive and move the industry forward significantly but, like, can the agencies maybe talk and spread these out so poor Policy…

Off the Blockchain+, December 1-8, 2025

It was tokenization week, with the SEC holding a panel on the topic, Chair Atkins delivering multiple speeches which hit on tokenization topics like self-custody and trading, and a TradFi mainstay advocating for the SEC to hurry up and wait with layers of forced intermediation instead of pursuing the highest/best use of blockchain technologies. Congress…

Off the Blockchain+, November24-December 1, 2025

Hope everybody in the U.S. had way too much turkey and football on the couch this past week for Thanksgiving! In a short week, there were still quite a few legal developments including another SEC no action letter for a DePIN token launch, and some venture capital token sale shenanigans for a fairly large L2…

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