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26
Jan
New for 2024: Beneficial Ownership Reporting
While 2024 looks to be full of possibilities, it also starts the clock ticking on an issue that may affect many US-based corporations and LLCs: beneficial ownership reporting. Broadly, as of 2024, virtually all small companies and LLCs in the…

14
Sep
CFTC action against Opyn: a new approach to geo-blocking?
2023 has continued to be a banner year for crypto legal news, with recent events including significant charges announced against Titan Global Capital, sanctions and charges against the founders of Tornado Cash, as well as an SEC administrative order against Impact Theory. Even…

14
Jul
SEC v. Ripple: is XRP a security? Sometimes.
Update July 31, 2023: the court in SEC v. Terraform Labs Pte. Ltd. has explicitly rejected the reasoning in Ripple, in particular Ripple’s finding that the “Programmatic Buyers” could not have known if their payments of money went to Ripple, or any other seller of XRP, and thus,…

06
Jun
Binance and Coinbase: The SEC Goes for Broke
It finally happened. You’ve likely seen the recent SEC civil cases against Binance and Coinbase in the news as the latest major development in the legal landscape for crypto projects. In some ways, these cases are simply the logical continuation of other recent cases…

18
Apr
Bittrex: Is It Enough to “Scrub” Your Advertisements?
You may have heard of the recent case filed against Bittrex Global GmbH by the SEC, alleging that Bittrex was operating an unregistered national securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency. While there’s a lot going on in this case, there are…

07
Apr
Suing a DAO: Is bZx a General Partnership?
In late March, a federal judge in California handed down a significant ruling regarding the liability of “decentralized autonomous organization” (“DAO”) members. If this sticks, and subsequent rulings follow the same pattern, DAO members may find themselves in the unenviable…