It was great seeing so many people in Toronto last week! Despite some recent drama which called into question whether digital asset market structure legislation can get done in the U.S. this year, the vibes were high and people seem genuinely excited about what is being built in the space (and, more importantly, being builtContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, May 12-19, 2025”
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Off the Blockchain+, May 5-12, 2025
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”
Off the Blockchain+, April 28-May 5, 2025
If you are going to be at Consensus in Toronto next week, hit me up because I always love meeting up with people who enjoy my weekly updates and learning how to make them better! It was a busy week with Congress back in session, and Coinbase is asking the Supreme Court to check theContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, April 28-May 5, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, April 14-21, 2025
With Congress on break the administrative agencies taking a break after being busy last week, it was another slow week in terms of legal developments. However, as predicted, with the SEC backing off regulation by enforcement, Plaintiffs’ attorneys and state regulators are taking up the litigation mantle. Here’s everything that happened last week in Web3Continue reading “Off the Blockchain+, April 14-21, 2025”
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 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”
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