A new rule amending Alaska’s money transmission regulations expands the scope of money transmission activity subject to regulation to include virtual currency. As a result, effective January 1, 2023, companies engaged in...more
On March 24, 2020, Judge P. Kevin Castel of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) request for a preliminary injunction against Telegram Group Inc....more
A way out of the ‘regulatory Catch-22’ for launching distributed networks?
In a February 6 speech at the International Blockchain Congress in Chicago, Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Hester Peirce...more
On July 10 and July 11, 2019, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) qualified the Regulation A token offerings of Blockstack PBC and YouNow, Inc., nearly two years after the DAO Report and a year and half after...more
On April 3, the SEC Division of Corporation Finance released a No Action Letter and a suggested framework for applying the investment contract analysis to tokens and digital assets....more