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”
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Off the Blockchain+, September 1-8, 2025
As expected, September started with a bang with the Senate Banking Committee releasing their updated draft market structure legislative text, and the SEC and CFTC releasing various joint statements regarding agency priorities in digital asset regulation. There were also more details on the Stripe payment processing layer-1 blockchain, and prediction markets had a big weekContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, September 1-8, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, July 14-21, 2025
Crypto hit a $4 trillion market cap in a wild “Crypto Week” which included some drama in Congress and started rocky, but ended with some of the most bipartisan support for various crypto bills that we have ever seen and the first digital asset bill in America being signed into law. But while all thatContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, July 14-21, 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 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+, 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+, December 23-30, 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+, December 23-30, 2024”
Off the Blockchain+, December 2-9, 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+, December 2-9, 2024”
Off the Blockchain+, April 22-May 6, 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+, April 22-May 6, 2024”
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