With March Madness in full swing, the Southeastern Conference wasn’t the only SEC making noise last week, with the federal agency version of the SEC seemingly dropping its appeal in Ripple and releasing staff guidance on proof of work mining. On the legislative front, stablecoin bills are moving full speed ahead, and M&A activity continuesContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, March 17-24, 2025”
Tag Archives: Coinbase
Off the Blockchain+, February 24-March 3, 2025
Early in the week, it was blood in the streets with crypto reaching lows unheard of since (checks notes) November. Then President Trump announced a surprise U.S. crypto reserve over the weekend of not just BTC/ETH, but also SOL/XRP/ADA, which sent prices of those assets pumping again (only to crash again Monday). The other legalContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, February 24-March 3, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, February 17-24, 2025
Even before Paul Atkins is confirmed as the next Chair of the SEC, the agency had a busy week with the crypto task force opening up for submissions on how to regulate crypto and various investigations and lawsuits likely going by the wayside. This all happened the same week there was the biggest hack inContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, February 17-24, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, February 10-17, 2025
It was a fairly tame week in terms of legal developments until the nation-state of Argentina decided to drop a memecoin on Friday and then take out all the liquidity (i.e., “rug”) a few hours later. But other than that, Mr. Milei , how was the play? We also got the name of the likelyContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, February 10-17, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, January 20-27, 2025
Intro/Disclaimer: Since late 2022, I’ve prepared weekly updates for attorneys at my firm to stay abreast of the latest Web3 legal developments. The biggest stories are included in Bi-Weekly posts on the firm’s BitBlog, where we provide tl;dr overviews and insights into the biggest stories from the past two weeks. I post the weekly updatesContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, January 20-27, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, January 13-20, 2025
Intro/Disclaimer: Since late 2022, I’ve prepared weekly updates for attorneys at my firm to stay abreast of the latest Web3 legal developments. The biggest stories are included in Bi-Weekly posts on the firm’s BitBlog, where we provide tl;dr overviews and insights into the biggest stories from the past two weeks. I post the weekly updatesContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, January 13-20, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, January 6-13, 2025
Intro/Disclaimer: Since late 2022, I’ve prepared weekly updates for attorneys at my firm to stay abreast of the latest Web3 legal developments. The biggest stories are included in Bi-Weekly posts on the firm’s BitBlog, where we provide tl;dr overviews and insights into the biggest stories from the past two weeks. I post the weekly updatesContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, January 6-13, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, December 30, 2024-January 6, 2025
Intro/Disclaimer: Since late 2022, I’ve prepared weekly updates for attorneys at my firm to stay abreast of the latest Web3 legal developments. The biggest stories are included in Bi-Weekly posts on the firm’s BitBlog, where we provide tl;dr overviews and insights into the biggest stories from the past two weeks. I post the weekly updatesContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, December 30, 2024-January 6, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, December 16-23, 2024
Intro/Disclaimer: Since late 2022, I’ve prepared weekly updates for attorneys at my firm to stay abreast of the latest Web3 legal developments. The biggest stories are included in Bi-Weekly posts on the firm’s BitBlog, where we provide tl;dr overviews and insights into the biggest stories from the past two weeks. I post the weekly updatesContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, December 16-23, 2024”
Off the Blockchain+, December 9-16, 2024
Intro/Disclaimer: Since late 2022, I’ve prepared weekly updates for attorneys at my firm to stay abreast of the latest Web3 legal developments. The biggest stories are included in Bi-Weekly posts on the firm’s BitBlog, where we provide tl;dr overviews and insights into the biggest stories from the past two weeks. I post the weekly updatesContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, December 9-16, 2024”