Legal

Sparkster raised $30M, but is facing legal action from investors who allege the project ran a misleading sale.

CipherTrace, a blockchain forensics company, makes headlines today for its role in the seizure of $1.4 million in bitcoins that may have been destined for illicit usage. In the resulting court case, David Jevans, CEO of CipherTrace was…

Last year was a busy year for Blake Rizzo, and it looks like 2019 will continue with his foot firmly on the gas pedal. As well as heading charity affairs at Tour de Crypto, a platform that educates charity organizations and the general…

Crypto-related crime spiked massively last year, according to the latest report from AML firm CipherTrace. Digital crooks made off with some $1.7 billion worth of crypto assets in 2018. Some $950 million of the ill-gotten riches were…

Mastercard filed the most global blockchain patents out of all US firms in 2017, a new report has found. The news comes in the same week that EU regulators fined the card provider $650M for restricting competition. A survey conducted by…

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”…