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BLOCKCHAIN, LAW AND REGULATION
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
Michael Bacina
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Jul 5, 20247 min read
Legal Uncertainty Looms Over Digital Wallets: not just for Qoins?
In the wake of the recent Federal Court ruling in the Qoin case, the question of whether digital wallet products qualify as non-cash...
Jul 5, 20242 min read
SEC Sues MetaMask
In a significant escalation of regulatory scrutiny in the United States, the US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) has filed a...
Jul 5, 20244 min read
Your keys, your crypto: Aussie Judge argues crypto is property
Cryptocurrency is property – at least according to Federal Court Justice Ian Jackman. In a recent extracurial speech to the Commercial...
Jul 4, 20243 min read
US Court rejects SEC's token theory
On 28 June 2024, Judge Jackson of the US District Court for the district of Colombia issued a lengthy order resolving the pending motion...
Jul 2, 20242 min read
Coinbase State of Crypto Condensed
The United States' largest cryptocurrency platform by trading volume, Coinbase, has released their Q2 2024 State of Crypto report. This...
Jun 28, 20243 min read
New market paradigms: mitigating settlement risks in Web3
As the use of public blockchains in financial transactions continues to grow, it is crucial to address the settlement risks associated...
Jun 28, 20242 min read
Hydro execs damned over token price manipulation
Two executives of Hydro Technology - the company behind the cryptocurrency HYDRO - have been sentenced to jail for defrauding investors...
Jun 27, 20243 min read
Money laundering in the metaverse
Financial crime compliance company Elliptic has released the 2024 instalment of its annual report on ‘Preventing Financial Crime in...
Jun 26, 20242 min read
Terraform settles for USD$4.5bn over Luna implosion
Terraform Labs and its former CEO Do Kwon have agreed to pay USD $4.47bn to settle civil charges brought by the US Securities and...
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