It’s Consensus week! I am going with some Polsinelli collogues, so if you are at the conference let us know and we are happy to meet up in person. In crypto news, to say it was a busy week would be an understatement. The new digital asset market structure bill had its draft language released,Continue reading “Off the Blockchain+, May 5-12, 2025”
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Off the Blockchain+, April 7-14, 2025
After a few quiet weeks, we are back in the swing of things with the Department of Justice reassessing their entire digital asset prosecution strategy, the SEC working to register certain industry participants, and omnibus digital asset legislation next up for Congress. It was also a busy week in crypto M&A as digital asset companiesContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, April 7-14, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, March 10-17, 2025
Congress continues to move fast in digital asset legislation, but it was an otherwise relatively quiet week in legal developments. The IRS crypto broker rules are all but dead, and both chambers of Congress had forward momentum on stablecoin legislation. For once, it seems like all the news regarding digital asset lawsuits are involving privateContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, March 10-17, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, March 3-10, 2025
The Whitehouse hosted its first “crypto summit” and the SEC stayed busy in announcing various initiatives and roundtables and cleaning house of non-fraud pending investigations and cases. Congress was also busy, with the Senate taking a crucial first step in repealing burdensome tax reporting rules for digital asset businesses, and various members of Congress creatingContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, March 3-10, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, February 3-10, 2025
With Congress in full swing and administrative agencies’ new leadership announcing their agendas, it was a BUSY week in Web3 legal developments. It seems likely there will be stablecoin legislation going through Congress in the next few months with a total market structure bill following shortly thereafter. Also, just to stay up to date onContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, February 3-10, 2025”
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”
Off the Blockchain+, September 23-30, 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+, September 23-30, 2024”
Off the Blockchain+, September 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+, September 16-23, 2024”
Off the Blockchain+, September 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+, September 9-16, 2024”
Off the Blockchain+, July 8-15, 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 concise tl;dr overviews and insights into how these developments might ripple through the industry. In pursuit of aContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, July 8-15, 2024”
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