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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

CryptoLink - August 2024 Updates

The Senate has yet to take action on the 21st Century Act (FIT21) (H.R.4763) which passed the House by a comfortable margin of 279-136 on May 22, 2024. FIT21 is a proposed landmark piece of legislation that would enact a...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

CFTC Action Against Decentralized Digital Asset Manipulation Is First of Its Kind

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") recently filed a novel civil enforcement action against Avraham "Avi" Eisenberg in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, charging Eisenberg with a...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

CFTC’s Enforcement of Fraudulent and Manipulative Pump-and-Dump Scheme in Crypto Commodities

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) has two levels of jurisdiction under the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”). First, there is an exclusive (or regulatory) jurisdiction over “derivatives” on “commodities,”...more

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BitBlog Bi-Weekly Update - April 2020

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While the world at large shelters in place due to COVID-19 legal and regulatory activity of digital asset and the blockchain world is hopping. ...more

Hogan Lovells

US court orders operator of fraudulent crypto scheme to pay £1.9 million

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What has happened? A US federal court has ordered Dillon Michael Dean and his UK-registered company, The Entrepreneurs Headquarters Ltd (TEH), to pay over $1.9 million in "civil monetary penalties and restitution"....more

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