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BLOCKCHAIN, LAW AND REGULATION
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
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Trump Announces Virtual Fort Knox with Crypto Strategic Reserve
President Donald Trump has announced that five cryptocurrencies will be included in a “Crypto Strategic Reserve”. The move signals a...
Mar 52 min read


SEC drops numerous crypto prosecutions
Regulation by enforcement against the US crypto industry continues to fall away. In recent weeks a raft of enforcement actions from the...
Mar 33 min read

Australia sanctions Zservers in coordinated ransomware action
On February 11, 2025, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the United Kingdom’s...
Feb 212 min read


Australia passes sweeping Scams Prevention Act
Australia’s Federal Parliament has passed the Scams Prevention Framework Act 2025 , marking a major step in the country’s fight against...
Feb 202 min read

HK Giants join forces on HK dollar backed-stablecoin
In a groundbreaking move, Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong, Animoca Brands, and HKT have announced the formation of a joint venture to...
Feb 192 min read

SEC Taskforce receives Ten Commandments for crypto regulation
The Chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Crypto Task Force has set forth a set of key priorities or "crypto...
Feb 133 min read

TL;DR: Australia implements sweeping reforms to AML/CTF rules
In November 2024, the Australian Parliament passed the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Amendment Act 2024 ( the...
Feb 66 min read

El Savador bids adios to bitcoin legal tender experiment
After making waves in 2021 as the first country to recognise bitcoin as legal tender (meaning that citizens would be forced under law to...
Feb 42 min read


Tokenise securities, and give to the poor, says Robinhood CEO
The ability to tokenise securities and open a path for retail investors to invest in private companies is something that has been...
Jan 303 min read
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