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HBZ Investors Urge Court to Block Smart Contract Destruction

10.7.2020
A class-action lawsuit seeks to prevent e-scooter firm Helbiz from destroying the smart contract underpinning its ERC-20 token

DLT Voting Would Likely Benefit Democrats: UNSW Professor

10.7.2020
Professor Richard Holden thinks exploring distributed ledger technology for voting in US elections could put voter fraud lawsuits to bed

New York Court Rejects Bitfinex Appeal Over $850M in Lost Funds

10.7.2020
New York’s Supreme Court has rejected Bitfinex and Tether’s appeal in the ongoing dispute between the firms and the NY Attorney General over $850 million in lost funds

First Russian Crypto Law ‘to Be In Force by Start of 2021’

9.7.2020
Russia’s first crypto law “will be adopted by January 1, 2021,” said the bill’s chief architect, adding that the legislation is “now approaching the finish line.” Per RBC, Anatoly Aksakov, the head of the State Duma’s financial committee and the man charged with mediating the “On Digital Assets”...

Centre Obliges Government Request, Freezes Address With $100,000 USDC

9.7.2020
Centre Consortium has blacklisted an ethereum address holding $100,000 in USDC, a move that the entity says was “in response to a request from law enforcement.” A joint venture between Circle and Coinbase, Centre is the issuer of the dollar-pegged USDC stablecoin, which runs on...

Centre Freezes Ethereum Address Holding $100K USDC

9.7.2020
Stablecoin issuer Centre has confirmed they froze an Ethereum address holding $100,000 USDC at the request from law enforcement

Prosecutors Expect Guilty Plea From Alleged $7m Crypto Fraudster

9.7.2020
The operator of an allegedly fraudulent crypto escrow scheme accused of misappropriating $7 million from two clients is expected to plead guilty in September

Circle Confirms Freezing $100K in USDC at Law Enforcement’s Request

9.7.2020
CENTRE froze $100,000 in USDC in response to a request from law enforcement, the group said Wednesday

Legal Implications of Secondary SAFT Sales, Part 2

8.7.2020
Part 2 of this series continues to cover the legal implications associated with the sale of SAFTs and focuses on taxes related to tokens

Hong Kong’s National Security Law Could Threaten Local Crypto Brokerages

8.7.2020
The U.S. sanctions on financial institutions in Hong Kong could put the city’s growing crypto brokerage businesses in jeopardy

Study: 89% Worry What Happens to Their Crypto After They Die

8.7.2020
Millennials and Zoomers are the least likely crypto investors to have a plan for their digital assets should they die unexpectedly

New Action Movie Features Billion Dollar Crypto Theft

8.7.2020
New movie “Money Plane” features a plot about a heist from a ‘bulletproof casino in the sky’ carrying $1 billion in crypto

SEC’s Cryptomom Peirce Believes US Capital Markets Can ‘Transform People’s Lives’

7.7.2020
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce wants to see new crypto projects get a fair shake at U.S. capital markets

Legal Implications of Secondary SAFT Sales, Part 1

7.7.2020
Part 1 of this series covers the legal implications associated with the sale of SAFTs and different approaches to legal interpretations of tokens

Monaco Passes New Security Token Laws, but Acting on Them Is Not Easy

7.7.2020
The government of Monaco has passed a new bill introducing the establishment of a security token framework

Encryption Crackdown: Private Phone Network With 60,000 Users Dismantled by Law Enforcement

6.7.2020
An international law enforcement team has brought down an encrypted phone network with 60,000 users worldwide. The platform was one of the largest providers of encrypted communications, widely used by organized crime groups. UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), Europol, Eurojust, and several...