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 PolicyContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, December 8-15, 2025”
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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. CongressContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, December 1-8, 2025”
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 L2Continue reading “Off the Blockchain+, November24-December 1, 2025”
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 thatContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, November 17-24, 2025”
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 leaningContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, November 10-17, 2025”
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 firstContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, November 3-10, 2025”
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, andContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, October 27-November 3, 2025”
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 ChamberContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, October 20-27, 2025”
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 joinContinue reading “Career Update: I’m Joining the Digital Chamber to Advocate for Crypto Full Time”
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 updatesContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, September 29-October 6, 2025”
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