It’s officially the New Year, and I couldn’t be more excited to be back in what is sure to be a legislative and administrative rulemaking sprint for Q1 2026. It was another slow holiday week without any stories warranting “major story” attention, but we have a (semi) confirmed date for market structure mark-up in theContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, December 29, 2025-January 5, 2026”
Tag Archives: Cryptocurrency
Off the Blockchain+, December 22-29, 2025
As could be expected on a holiday week, it was a slow week in terms of legal developments which is a calm-before-the-storm type of moment as we gear up towards the race for market structure in the new year. You can use the break in the action to catch up on all the major developmentsContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, December 22-29, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, December 15-22, 2025
We didn’t get a market structure markup Christmas miracle with that process pushed to the new year, but it was still an insanely busy week. The SEC was especially busy, providing a slew of materials on the same week it held a financial privacy-focused roundtable. There was also a bipartisan crypto tax proposal floated, andContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, December 15-22, 2025”
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 PolicyContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, December 8-15, 2025”
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 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”
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