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The CLARITY Act’s Unfinished Business

By David Krause July 22, 2025 by renholding

After nearly two decades of regulatory uncertainty, digital assets stand at a critical juncture in American financial law. On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act,” known as the GENIUS Act, …

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Bringing Accountability Back to Decentralized Finance

By Vanessa Villanueva Collao June 25, 2025 by renholding

The promise of decentralized finance (DeFi) was that it would replace often conflict-ridden financial intermediaries and hierarchies with automated systems that we could trust. The reality, however, is that DeFi has not eradicated conflicts or trust issues but shifted them …

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A&O Shearman Discusses SEC Position on the Securities Status of Protocol Staking Activities

By Dario de Martino and Susan Gault-Brown June 16, 2025 by renholding

On May 29, 2025, the staff of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) issued a statement concluding that certain proof-of-stake blockchain “staking” activities do not involve the offer or sale of “securities” within the meaning of the Securities …

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Wachtell Lipton Discusses Cryptoasset Developments: Continued Progress Toward U.S. Regulatory Clarity

By Kevin S. Schwartz and David M. Adlerstein June 9, 2025 by renholding

As regulators and policymakers across the federal government press forward with creating long-sought rules of the road for the cryptoasset industry, several recent developments bear particular significance for the promise of the decentralized internet, or Web3. Among these is the …

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SEC Commissioner Dissents from Staff Statement on Protocol Staking Activities

By Caroline A. Crenshaw May 30, 2025 by renholding

Channeling the old adage of “fake it ‘till you make it,” today’s statement from the Division of Corporation Finance declares that “protocol staking” – locking up crypto tokens in a blockchain protocol to earn rewards – does not involve an …

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SEC Chair Speaks on Tokenization at Crypto Task Force Roundtable

By Paul S. Atkins May 13, 2025 by renholding

The topic of this afternoon’s discussion is timely as securities are increasingly migrating from traditional (or “off-chain”) databases to blockchain-based (or “on-chain”) ledger systems.[1]

This movement of securities from off-chain to on-chain systems is akin to the transition of
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SEC Commissioner Peirce Proposes Safe Harbor, Sandbox for Crypto on Blockchain

By Hester M. Peirce May 9, 2025 by renholding

Welcome to the penultimate day of the SEC’s 31st International Institute for Securities Market Growth and Development. Before I begin, as I am sure you anticipate based on what you have heard from many SEC speakers this week, my …

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U.S. Banking Agencies’ Shift Toward Crypto Integration

By David Krause May 8, 2025 by renholding

In April 2025, the landscape of U.S. crypto regulation shifted significantly. Three of the country’s principal bank regulators – the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) – jointly …

Davis Polk Discusses SEC’s Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit

By Greg D. Andres, Robert A. Cohen, Martine M. Beamon, Stefani Johnson Myrick and Fuad Rana March 13, 2025 by eorozco

Changes to the SEC’s specialized crypto enforcement unit signal a reduced focus on non-fraud crypto cases and increased prioritization of traditional cybersecurity issues, use of emerging technologies to defraud retail investors and crypto cases involving fraud.

On February 20, 2025, …

Decentralized Markets and Self-Regulation

By Yuliya Guseva January 31, 2025 by renholding

The United States is ushering in a new era of crypto reforms. Only a few days ago, Mark Uyeda, the acting chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), announced the formation of the Crypto Task Force to be spearheaded …

Governing the Crypto Revolution: What Business Can Teach Us

By Sinclair Davidson January 20, 2025 by renholding

Blockchain technology promises a future where intermediaries, such as banks and governments, are no longer necessary to facilitate transactions or enforce rules. Instead, trust is embedded directly into the system through cryptography and consensus mechanisms. Blockchains underpin cryptocurrencies …

Cahill Discusses Potential Impact of 2024 Election Results on Crypto Sector

By Lewis Cohen, Sarah Chen and Morrease Leftwich November 22, 2024 by eorozco

The election of Donald Trump to a second term as President signals the potential for a fundamental shift in the U.S. regulatory landscape for users of crypto assets and blockchain technology across a variety of sectors, including gaming, art and …

Smart Contract Arbitration Should Balance Transparency With Anonymity

By Bahadir Köksal September 27, 2024 by renholding

In the rapidly evolving world of blockchain technology, smart contracts have emerged as a revolutionary tool for documenting transactions. These self-executing contracts, with terms transcribed directly into code, are designed to automate and enforce agreements without the need for intermediaries.

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How to Regulate FinTech, Crypto Assets, DeFi, and Other Financial Innovations

By Steven L. Schwarcz April 10, 2024 by renholding

In a new article, I attempt to build a systematic framework for regulating FinTech-driven innovations. In doing so, I clarify and simplify the confusing terminology that makes FinTech appear more complicated than it is.

“FinTech” refers to the use of …

How the Automated Restructuring of Tokenized Securities Can Lower the Cost of Capital

By Michael Schillig, Christoph Kletzer and Andrei Balcau February 8, 2024 by renholding

In a recent paper, we make the case for a smart contract-based automated restructuring framework that can be used by any firm that issues equity and debt securities in tokenized form. The paper is the basis for an actual smart-contract …

Fintech and the False Promise of Techno-Solutionism

By Hilary J. Allen January 25, 2024 by renholding

For about a decade, financial regulators have been grappling with the rise of fintech and the ways it disrupts financial regulation.  But something is often lacking in these policy conversations. In a new draft article, I argue that financial …

The Current Securities Landscape of Cryptocurrencies and NFTs

By Christa J. Laser December 1, 2023 by renholding

The value of assets on the blockchain has soared to billions of dollars, stored everywhere from Bitcoin to Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs to play-to-earn gaming. Some of those assets, though, have crashed and burned in the wake of market …

Can the Uniform Commercial Code Help Save Bitcoin from Speculators?

By Mark Edwin Burge October 23, 2023 by renholding

As the original cryptocurrency, Bitcoin has received more than its share of exposure, including as a harbinger of the possibilities of blockchain.  Since the 2008 brainchild of Satoshi Nakamoto hit the internet, supporters of the original cryptocurrency have lauded it …

How Blockchain Could Improve the Global Supply Chain

By Chang-hsien Tsai and Ching-Fu Lin May 10, 2023 by renholding

Global supply chains (GSCs) have become increasingly complex and fragmented over the last few decades due to advances in transportation and production technology, economic globalization, and the emergence of multinational corporations (MNCs). Despite their benefits, GSCs present significant risks of …

Wachtell Lipton Discusses Key Issues for Boards in Corporate Governance for 2023

By Martin Lipton, Steven A. Rosenblum, Karessa L. Cain and Hannah Clark December 6, 2022 by renholding

While the world recovers from the worst of the pandemic, the economic, political and social repercussions will continue to play out in ways that, while unpredictable, are in some respects characterized by observable patterns of cause-and-effect and cyclicality.  The pendulum …

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