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The following is an interview between our law clerk Elisa Bernardini (EB) and of counsel attorney Ali Derie (AD). Ali attended the University of Buffalo for...

The Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC’s) aggressive interpretations of the scope of their authority and what types of conduct run afoul of securities...

An NFT, shorthand for non-fungible token, is a digital certificate of ownership captured by computer code that exists on a decentralized ledger...

The SEC BlockFi settlement on February 14th was a monumental legal moment for the Cryptocurrency and DeFi space with $100 Million. While the...

The comments below are in response to the New York DFS’s new proposed Coin Listing Policy Framework (the “Proposal” or the “Framework”)...

Airdroppin’: Maintain Extreme Caution When Doing This With Blockchain Tokens In The U.S. (Source: U.S. Air Force Photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson Via...

(*) Some of the biggest news of the past half-year on the US crypto regulatory front has been (1) Blockstack’s successful (qualified)...

Another takeaway of mine from the SEC’s April 3rd releases was noting a striking shift in gears from the SEC.  Namely, there was a...

Written by Eric Goldman All start-ups face hurdles when launching; it’s baked into the process. Some of those hurdles are only going...