Hope everybody had a great Memorial Day weekend, despite the rainy weather we had here in D.C. to officially kick off summer. With Congress on break this week, lots of work by all the staffers working behind the scenes to get Market Structure ready for the Senate floor. In the meantime, last week we aContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, May 18-25, 2026”
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Off the Blockchain+, May 11-18, 2026
It finally happened! After delays dating back to mid-January, we finally got updated Senate Banking market structure text which passed the Senate Banking Committee on a bipartisan vote the same week! It is hard to focus on much else with all that going on, since market structure legislation passing would dwarf any other digital assetContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, May 11-18, 2026”
Off the Blockchain+, February 23-March 2, 2026
I don’t know if it’s just because there were a ton of developments in areas like stablecoin regulation and prediction markets that I am especially focused on, but this was a crazy week in terms of crypto legal developments. We got long awaited GENIUS Act implementation regulations from the OCC and it’s a doozy andContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, February 23-March 2, 2026”
Off the Blockchain+, February 2-9, 2026
I didn’t hear no bell! Despite crypto prices continuing to fall along with larger market pullbacks across assets, the legal developments continued forward. After two weeks of fast-paced legal developments, it was a relatively slow week with lots of minor updates such as the Whitehouse trying to get the parties in a room to solveContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, February 2-9, 2026”
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+, 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 aContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, September 8-15, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, August 11-18, 2025
With Congress in August recess, it was a slow week as far as Web3 legal developments go. Which was a welcome respite after the flurry of activity in July and what is expected to be an equally fast paced September. There was nothing that warranted Major Story attention, but that gives time to catch upContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, August 11-18, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, August 4-11, 2025
After the flurry of activity over the past month, it was a relatively calm week in crypto legal developments. The main event worth tracking was the conclusion of the DOJ v. Roman Storm trial, which ended in one guilty verdict for an unlicensed money transmission charge related to the creation of non-custodial open-source software whichContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, August 4-11, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, July 28-August 4, 2025
Ethereum turned 10 years old last week, and the network has had many different upgrades over the years with zero downtime, which is an amazing technical feat. And Ethereum’s birthday week was a BUSY one. Between the Chair of the SEC announcing his intent to bring all American capital markets onchain through “Project Crypto” andContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, July 28-August 4, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, July 21-28, 2025
“Crypto Week” in the House was 2 week ago, where the House passed their market structure bill, the CLARITY Act, on an over 2-1 bipartisan vote. Last week, the Senate was able to begin their market structure legislation in earnest, revealing a discussion draft of how digital assets should be regulated at the SEC, andContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, July 21-28, 2025”
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