Legal

Decentralized exchanges may be the wave of the future. But that is increasingly looking like a distant future, at least if recent regulatory action is any indication. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s rebuke of EtherDelta, a smart…

Claiming that XRP isn’t a security might be a long shot, but Ripple’s lawyers have shown themselves more than capable of pulling a legal hat-trick. In the latest chapter of the XRP courtroom drama, the company behind the third-largest…

Selling bitcoins in New York is harder than getting a ticket to the Oscars, but a Texan crypto company has just scored a seat. Coinsource, a leading operator of Bitcoin ATMs, has finally secured regulatory approval to buy and sell crypto…

The legal profession is built on tradition, history, and tomes of case law that fill libraries around the world. The profession itself has evolved, and today, contract specialists argue over details and disputes that could all become a…

Hedera Hashgraph began life as an algorithm. But over the years since 2015 it morphed into a leviathan, raising around $100M on a $6bn valuation from institutional and accredited investors. After launch, it will be almost entirely…

The primary goals of various organized crime syndicates is usually nothing more than financial gain. As a consequence, the primary job of various law enforcement agencies is to neutralize the proceeds of crime and send a clear message to…

We start this analysis with an unusual positive: cryptocurrency regulation in Australia is moving in the right direction, and the latest legislative developments regarding cryptocurrencies should be welcomed by the general public as a step…

The Blockchain Law Society launches in South Korea on August 24th with a clear mandate to create a proper regulatory framework for the blockchain and associated cryptocurrencies. A number of District Judges, lawyers and cryptocurrency…

The Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) announced a partnership with the Smart Dubai Initiative to reshape the judicial process through the use of blockchain. The world’s first “Court of Blockchain” has been established to develop a…

A leading blockchain-focused law firm believes that compliance will soon be baked in to the very blockchain systems that the companies are based on. Zach Fallon is a former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer and is now the…

When the GDPR entered into force on May 25, 2018, mailboxes around the world were flooded with obligatory emails by various services informing their customers about the new “GDPR compliant privacy policies.” All of us have been a “victim”…