Ethereum – The NFTtorney

Off the Blockchain+, March 17-24, 2025

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”

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 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 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+, January 27-February 3, 2025

It was a relatively quiet week, especially in comparison to the week before where SAB 121 was repealed, the SEC formed a crypto rulemaking task force, and President Trump released an Executive Order on crypto. But despite having no developments worth “Major Story” attention (except maybe my ETH bags tanking due to tariff talk), thereContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, January 27-February 3, 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”

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