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Weekly Blockchain Blog - May 2024 #2

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Crypto and Web3 Firms Announce Fintech Integrations - A major U.S. fintech firm recently announced a product integration with MoonPay, a Web3 infrastructure company, “that allows MoonPay users in the U.S. to seamlessly buy...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Five Reasons Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Startups Should Prioritize IP

Despite recent headlines that have proclaimed “The End of Crypto” in view of large-scale failures at cryptocurrency companies like FTX, Celsius, and Blockfi, innovation in the space continues at an accelerating pace. Startups...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 11.05.2019 | Top Story: Uber Posts Billion-dollar Q3 Losses But Improved Revenue

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Uber reported another quarter of billion+ dollar losses, but as so many things on Wall Street & Silicon Valley tend to go, the news wasn’t all bad because those numbers were far better than the $5.2 billion it lost in Q2....more

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BitBlog Weekly Summary

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This summary covers the last two weeks which includes news about continued enforcement actions by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) involving fraudulent digital asset transactions, dismissal of a securities...more

Perkins Coie

Blockchain Week in Review - July 2019 #3

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U.S. Developments - Regulatory Developments - SEC Issues Second No Action Letter for Blockchain-Based Project - On July 25, 2019, the staff of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued its second ever...more

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Blockchain Week in Review - March 2019 #4

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U.S. Developments - Regulatory Updates - SEC’s Valerie Szczepanik Speaks at SXSW - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Associate Director of the Division of Corporation Finance and Senior Advisor for...more

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Update on the Status of Initial Coin Offerings in Europe

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With crypto-currencies on the rise and technological developments providing great opportunities in the financial services sector, Initial Coin Offerings ("ICO") provide an innovative way of raising capital. They are...more

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Blockchain Is About So Much More Than Bitcoin Speculation

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This Houston Business Journal article quotes Steptoe & Johnson Attorney Daniel Nossa. Bitcoin speculation and initial coin offerings got plenty of attention in the past year. But those high-profile issues aren’t the...more

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Blockchain Developments: Food Supply Chain, Bitcoin ETPs, ICOs and Tech Adoption

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Multiple Pilots Drive Momentum for Leveraging Blockchain in the Food Supply Chain - A major global technology company recently shared additional details about the Food Trust, a consortium consisting of 10 of the world’s...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

China Shuts Down ICO Market

For the past few months, issuers of token sales or “initial coin offerings” (ICOs) have known that they were, to some extent, sailing in unchartered waters. Those waters have just gotten a bit murkier with an announcement by...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Lessons From the CoinDash Initial Coin Offering Hack

On July 17, 2017, the CoinDash initial coin offering (ICO) was hacked within minutes of its launch, resulting in numerous potential purchasers sending their money to a fraudulent address. The hack has raised many questions...more

Goodwin

Blockchain: Bitcoin and Beyond

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Consensus 2016, the second annual blockchain technology summit, was held in New York last week. Presented by CoinDesk and Digital Currency Group in collaboration with Coin Center, the conference was a meet-up for bitcoin...more

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SEC Says Fantasy Stock Trading Violates Securities Laws; Charges Others for Selling Illegal Security-Based Swaps

The SEC issued an Investor Alert which says fantasy stock trading for small amounts of money can violate provisions of securities laws implemented by the Dodd-Frank Act. I bet the Congressional drafters of these provisions...more

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Regulatory Notes on Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrency Derivatives

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Six things every investor, start-up, financial institution and payment processor should know about the future regulation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency derivatives. With the quickly developing market for...more

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