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Weekly Blockchain Blog - September 2024 #3

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Leading U.S. Crypto Companies Announce Multiple New Products, Integrations - A major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange recently announced the launch of cbBTC – an ERC20 token backed 1:1 by bitcoin held by the exchange. The new...more

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SEC Charges Ethereum Developer Over Liquid Staking and Swap Programs

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The SEC has charged a leading developer on the Ethereum blockchain with engaging in the unregistered offer and sale of certain securities through a “liquid staking” program and with failing to register as a broker in...more

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Blockchain+ Bi-Weekly: June 2024 #2

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On June 15, 2023, the Polsinelli Blockchain+ team put out our first Bi-Weekly rundown of some of the key stories in the Web3, blockchain, and crypto ecosystems curated by Polsinelli attorneys navigating the intersections of...more

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NYAG Questions Historic Classification of Ethereum’s Cryptocurrency in KuCoin Lawsuit

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On the heels of recent legal setbacks and challenges for NFT collections offered by Dapper Labs and DraftKings, the New York Attorney General (NYAG) filed suit in New York state court against the parent companies of...more

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SEC Brings Charges against Allegedly Fraudulent Unregistered Decentralized Finance Project That Ran on the Ethereum Platform

On August 6, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it had charged two men, Gregory Keough and Derek Acree, and their company, Blockchain Credit Partners, doing business as DeFi Money Market...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Distributed Ledger: Blockchain, Digital Assets and Smart Contracts - April 2019

In this issue, we examine the release of the much-anticipated Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (FinHub) guidance for analyzing how U.S. federal securities laws apply to initial coin offerings, the...more

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Crackdown: SEC's New Cyber Unit Targets Blockchain and ICO Abuses

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The Situation: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a special unit to bring enforcement actions against several forms of cyber misconduct. The Result: The Cyber Unit has already brought enforcement...more

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