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5/28/2024 9:05:33 PM A Sea Change in Washington on Crypto Policy Leads to Resounding Legislative and Regulatory Successes for Digital Assets By Celisa Morin Mark Bini Kaela Dahan It was quite a week for crypto in the U.S., marking one of the most important for the digital asset space and reflecting a clear rise in...
2/27/2024 8:26:03 PM U.S. Lawmakers, Banking Associations Challenge SEC’s SAB 121 By Celisa Morin As the two-year mark of the SEC’s controversial Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121 (SAB 121) approaches, it is coming under increasing...
1/11/2024 4:45:15 PM One Small Step For The SEC, One Giant Leap For Crypto By Mark Bini Celisa Morin Kaela Dahan Michael Tomasulo Hadas Jacobi +2 more... Show less In a historic day for the digital assets space, on January 10, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) greenlit...
1/4/2024 2:16:43 PM SEC shuts down BarnBridge DAO, fines founders for alleged securities violations in continuing anti-crypto enforcement development in the crypto market By Mehrnaz Afshar Celisa Morin Michael Tomasulo On 22 December 2023, the SEC announced that it had reached a settlement with BarnBridge DAO, a defi protocol for trading structured...
12/15/2023 4:45:10 PM FASB’s Updated Fair Value Accounting Treatment Eliminates a Major Impediment to Corporate Adoption of Bitcoin as a Treasury Asset By Celisa Morin Michael Tomasulo Mehrnaz Afshar This past week the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which establishes financial accounting and reporting standards for...
12/1/2023 12:41:00 AM U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETF Shifts the Narrative around Digital Assets By Mehrnaz Afshar Celisa Morin This past week the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) again delayed decisions on whether to approve applications for what...
10/26/2023 2:18:17 PM Crypto Focused Venture Firm Completes $580 million Fundraising Round By Victor Reim Celisa Morin Michael Tomasulo Blockchain Capital, a digital asset/crypto focused venture firm, recently completed the largest fund raise in its ten-year history. The...
10/18/2023 4:29:21 PM Asset Tokenization Takes a Big Step Forward By Victor Reim Michael Tomasulo Celisa Morin The tokenization-of-real-world-assets is seen by many as a practical and promising use-case for blockchain technology, and as an...
9/6/2023 3:30:58 PM Web3 round-up: best of summer 2023 (June / July / August) By Mikaela Belcher Nick Breen Casey Yang Authors: Michael Isselin, Nick Breen, Mikaela Belcher, Casey Yang, Rachael Mintah, Carsten Dobler, Judith Reboul, Aparna Luthra and...
7/5/2023 3:13:52 PM Will the U.S. Finally Have a Spot Bitcoin ETF? By Celisa Morin This post was also written by Ramsey Hanna. This past month, the Nasdaq exchange and BlackRock, the world’s largest global asset manager...
8/25/2022 1:46:29 PM Potential law reform in the UK digital assets sector By Howard Womersley Smith On 28 July 2022 the Law Commission of England and Wales published new proposals to reform the law relating to digital assets. The Law...
6/21/2022 6:29:33 PM Court Agrees with Policyholder That Theft from Private Wallet May Trigger Insurance Coverage By Nicolas Pappas In May, a New York district court denied an insurer’s motion to dismiss a policyholder’s complaint in Atwal v. NortonLifeLock, Inc. In...