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+, 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+, November 4-11, 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+, November 4-11, 2024”

Off the Blockchain+, August 26-September 2, 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+, August 26-September 2, 2024”

Off the Blockchain+, August 28-September 4, 2023

Hopefully you all enjoyed your Labor Day weekend here in the states! This week, there were three major stories with the SEC bringing its first enforcement action against an NFT issuer, Grayscale winning its appeal against the SEC, and the SEC v. Coinbase judge issuing an important ruling in the separate UniSwap case she wasContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, August 28-September 4, 2023”

Off the Blockchain+, August 21-28, 2023

Law enforcement was busy last week, with an arrest and charges connected to the Tornado Cash privacy/mixing protocol, and the OpenSea “insider trading” case coming to a close with sentencing. Treasury also finally released their crypto reporting guidelines and they are a doozy, potentially requiring even websites like Etherscan to report identities of individuals itContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, August 21-28, 2023”

Off the Blockchain+, May 1-8, 2023

Intro/Disclaimer: In late 2022 I started preparing updates for the attorneys at my firm practicing in the Web3 space regarding what legal stories people were talking about the prior week. I believe eventually we are going to do monthly or bi-weekly posts on the award winning BitBlog summarizing the top stories with tl;dr breakdowns onContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, May 1-8, 2023”

Off the Blockchain+, April 24-May 1, 2023

Intro/Disclaimer: In late 2022 I started preparing updates for the attorneys at my firm practicing in the Web3 space regarding what legal stories people were talking about the prior week. I believe eventually we are going to do monthly or bi-weekly posts on the award winning BitBlog summarizing the top stories with tl;dr breakdowns onContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, April 24-May 1, 2023”

Off the Blockchain+, April 3-10, 2023

Intro/Disclaimer: A few months ago I started preparing updates for the attorneys at my firm practicing in the Web3 space regarding what legal stories people were talking about the prior week. I believe eventually we are going to do monthly or bi-weekly posts on the award winning BitBlog summarizing the top stories with tl;dr breakdownsContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, April 3-10, 2023”

Off the Blockchain+, February 13-20, 2023

Intro/Disclaimer: A few months ago I started preparing updates for the attorneys at my firm practicing in the Web3 space regarding what legal stories people were talking about the prior week. I believe eventually we are going to do monthly or bi-weekly posts on the award winning BitBlog summarizing the top stories with tl;dr breakdownsContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, February 13-20, 2023”