Goodwin Digital Currency Perspectives Blog

In this Goodwin Insight, Karen Ubell, Mitzi Chang, and Adam Fovent discuss how reliance on enforcement as the principal tool for regulation is beset by fundamental limitations as a means of polic...

https://www.digitalcurrencyperspectives.com/2023/05/31/regulation-by-enforcement-in-the-digital-asset-industry-a-lagging-response-to-stale-facts/

Goodwin was excited to once again sponsor and host a client event in connection with Consensus 2023, the world’s largest, longest-running and most influential gathering that brings together all...

https://www.digitalcurrencyperspectives.com/2023/04/28/goodwins-digital-currency-and-blockchain-team-at-consensus-2023/

On Jan. 7, Anatoly Legkodymov, founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato, was arrested in Miami. The following day, the U.S. DOJ unsealed a complaint in federal court charging him with “c...

https://www.digitalcurrencyperspectives.com/2023/03/24/us-enforcement-agencies-are-turning-up-the-heat-on-crypto-related-crime-cointelegraph-magazine/

On February 28, 2023, the National Futures Association (NFA), the self-regulatory organization for U.S. derivatives market participants, submitted to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFT...

https://www.digitalcurrencyperspectives.com/2023/03/16/national-futures-association-to-expand-compliance-rulebook-to-address-member-activities-in-spot-digital-asset-commodities/

Throughout a tumultuous 2022, the digital currency and blockchain space saw a number of significant investigation, litigation, and enforcement matters as regulators continue their laser focus on ...

https://www.digitalcurrencyperspectives.com/2023/03/06/goodwin-shares-2022-year-in-review-digital-currency-and-blockchain-litigation-and-enforcement-developments/

In a recent client alert, Goodwin partner John Servidio and associate Adam Fovent discuss the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s (ISDA) Digital Asset Derivatives Definitions. As�...

https://www.digitalcurrencyperspectives.com/2023/02/03/isda-publishes-new-digital-asset-definitions-white-paper-on-navigating-bankruptcy-in-digital-asset-markets/

What’s the SEC’s reach on emerging blockchain technologies and what does that mean for crypto in the United States? In the newest SpeakBold Fireside Chat, Stronghold’s Sarah Lane sits down...

https://www.digitalcurrencyperspectives.com/2022/10/17/crypto-lawyer-karen-ubell-on-crypto-regulation-the-sec-and-daos-stronghold-speakbold-fireside-chat/

Mitzi Chang, a partner and co-chair of the Fintech and Digital Currency & Blockchain Technology practices, was recently featured as a guest on Hsu Untied, a unique podcast with Richard Hsu. Hs...

https://www.digitalcurrencyperspectives.com/2022/10/13/goodwin-partner-mitzi-chang-featured-on-hsu-untied-podcast/

In a first of its kind enforcement action, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) is attempting to hold participating members of a decentralized autonomous organization (“DAO”)...

https://www.digitalcurrencyperspectives.com/2022/10/05/cftc-attempts-to-extend-liability-to-dao-participants/

The plethora of public statements and draft legislation published over the past few months in the US as part of the effort to define a regulatory framework for digital assets have all but failed ...

https://www.digitalcurrencyperspectives.com/2022/10/05/us-crypto-regulation-less-conversation-more-action-international-financial-law-review/