BITS OF BLOCKS
BLOCKCHAIN, LAW AND REGULATION
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
Michael Bacina
Hong Kong strives to regain Asia's crypto crown
At the opening of Hong Kong's flagship Fintech conference last month, the city's officials issued a policy statement on virtual assets,...
State Street on the road to tokenisation
State Street, one of the world's largest asset management and custody firms, has announced plans to work towards tokenising funds and...
"Learning by doing": Singapore to curb crypto speculation
In a wide-ranging speech on Monday, the Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Ravi Menon, reiterated MAS'...
Cashing in on the 'ECASH' bill: US Bill signals move to digital dollar
Lawmakers in US Congress have tabled a new Bill - the Electronic Currency and Secure Hardware Act (ECASH) - that if passed, would direct...
Citizen Blockchain: The ‘Rosebud’ of NFTs up for sale in CityDAO
Decentralised autonomous organisations – or DAOs – are continually evolving our understanding of the interaction between physical and...
NASA: No NFTs right now, please
Shattering the dreams of astronaut cat artists around the world, NASA has updated their media usage guidelines to request that their...
eBay to ride the NFT wave, offering digital collectible NFTs
eBay is now offering NFTs for digital collectibles, such as trading cards, images or video clips, on its platform. Unlike Auction houses...
Sotheby's to auction the first NFT
Sotheby's has jumped aboard the NFT auction trend and in its second auction will offer Quantum, universally regarded as the first NFT...
Non-Fungible Tokens Take Flight
The Australian Financial Review published a piece this week titled "Crypto-art becomes the new cultural currency" which updates the...
Game on! Regulatory relief granted for gaming token VCOIN by US SEC
The SEC Division of Corporate Finance recently granted a welcome ‘no action position’ for Delaware Corporation IMVU Inc in relation to an...
Powell pessimistic about purpose of CBDCs in IMF conference comments
Jerome Powell expresses his reservations about the purpose of a CBDC in the US at a recent IMF conference
OECD publishes insights on tax policy issues of digital currencies
The OECD and the G20 on 12 October 2020 published a report analysing different international tax policy implications of the taxation of...
SEC slaps SALT with penalty and refund order
The SEC recently hit Salt Lending with an order to refund investors in its 2017, $47 million ICO, as well as a penalty
Arca analysis alleges Gnosis failed to deliver on promises
Cryptocurrency investment company Arca has recently called on Gnosis to pay back its token holders
US Congress hot and cold on digital assets, but considers Digital Dollar
A US Senate subcommittee has once again raised the possibility of a digital US dollar, as a means to maintain the dollar's supremacy
Trash to treasure: GarbagePailKids NFTs sell out in 28 hours
WAX has launched NFT's for GarbagePailKids trading cards, which have sold out in less than 28 hours
Security Token liquidity: Are we there yet? Are we there yet? When are we going to get there?
Since their inception, security tokens have generated unbridled enthusiasm. So where is the liquidity in security token markets?