Lots of talk out of Switzerland last week, as the world’s financial leaders met in Davos and crypto was a frequent topic of discussion. Back stateside, the Senate Agriculture Committee released updated draft text for their portion of the overall market structure legislation, and Chair Selig at the CFTC has gotten settled in and startedContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, January 19-26, 2026”
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Off the Blockchain+, November24-December 1, 2025
Hope everybody in the U.S. had way too much turkey and football on the couch this past week for Thanksgiving! In a short week, there were still quite a few legal developments including another SEC no action letter for a DePIN token launch, and some venture capital token sale shenanigans for a fairly large L2Continue reading “Off the Blockchain+, November24-December 1, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, November 3-10, 2025
The big story last week was the criminal trial over against two (alleged) MEV exploiters ending in a mistrial, giving another datapoint on where the line is drawn between “code-is-law” and fraud. Additionally, people (including the Digital Chamber) had lots to say to Treasury on how the GENIUS Act should be implemented, and the firstContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, November 3-10, 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+, December 18-25, 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. The firm has started turning these into bi-weekly posts on the award winning BitBlog summarizing the top stories with tl;dr breakdowns on the stories’ importanceContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, December 18-25, 2023”
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