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Off the Blockchain+, November 17-24, 2025
It was another week focused on market structure, as the Senate Agriculture committee is working through the brackets in its commodities-focused market structure draft and Senate Republicans are in talks with Senate Democrats on the banking/securities focused aspects of market structure in Senate Banking. With the CFTC-Chair nominee one step closer to taking over that…
Off the Blockchain+, November 10-17, 2025
The federal government is back to work after a historically long shutdown, and there is a lot of catching up to do. There was a bipartisan draft of digital asset commodities market structure legislation released from the Senate Agriculture Committee, but with so many blanks it is hard to say where those Senators are leaning…
Off the Blockchain+, November 3-10, 2025
The big story last week was the criminal trial over against two (alleged) MEV exploiters ending in a mistrial, giving another datapoint on where the line is drawn between “code-is-law” and fraud. Additionally, people (including the Digital Chamber) had lots to say to Treasury on how the GENIUS Act should be implemented, and the first…
Off the Blockchain+, October 27-November 3, 2025
It was another busy week in crypto law. I was personally focused on catching up on the prediction markets vs. state gaming regulator lawsuits, another of which was filed last week in New York. But additionally, there were developments in the public markets despite the SEC being largely unstaffed during the ongoing government shutdown, and…
Off the Blockchain+, October 20-27, 2025
After a brief break in coverage as I transitioned to my new role with the Digital Chamber, the weekly legal updates are back! As provided in the disclaimer at the end, any views or opinions provided in these updates are the views of me and me alone, and not the view of the Digital Chamber…
Career Update: I’m Joining the Digital Chamber to Advocate for Crypto Full Time
It’s been a while since I posted anything besides my weekly crypto legal update. So apologies if you opened your email or this blog looking for legal developments. Those may or may not continue. Still up in the air on that. The tl;dr of this week’s update is that I am leaving Polsinelli to join…
Off the Blockchain+, September 29-October 6, 2025
I have been posting these weekly crypto legal updates since January of 2023 without missing a week. My master tracking document is now 444 pages and almost 200,000 words. It has been awesome, and I am very thankful for all the subscribers and readers who have reached out to give suggestions to improve the updates…
Off the Blockchain+, September 22-29, 2025
With an impending potential government shutdown, focus in government was understandably not on crypto regulations or legislation. Even with that, though, the SEC gave a teaser on its expected timeline for the previously announced plan for an “innovation exclusion” from inapplicable securities regulations. Also, there were some developments on payment and internet rails for AI-enabled…
Off the Blockchain+, September 15-22, 2025
Last week, people were focused on projects announcing plans for (assumedly, governance) tokens to increase decentralization, including MetaMask and Base. The SEC also took another step forward by providing generic listing standards for exchange traded products which will allow for easier listing of crypto ETFs for people who want exposure to tokens through those types…
Off the Blockchain+, September 8-15, 2025
Most of the focus right now is on the Senate as they work through their market structure legislation process. But at the administrative agencies, things are moving forward whether market structure happens this year or not, with the SEC moving forward with implementing blockchain technology into trading equities, and the CFTC still waiting for a…
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