The Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) has approved final guidelines (“Final Guidelines”) for Federal Reserve Banks (“Reserve Banks”) to use in evaluating requests for master accounts and access to Reserve Bank…
On June 7, 2022, Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis and New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduced the Lummis-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act, the first comprehensive bill introduced to govern digital assets…
On July 21, 2022, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC” or the “Commission”) announced parallel actions against a former Coinbase product manager, his brother, and…
In light of recent volatility in crypto markets and news of several crypto entities filing for bankruptcy,[1] market participants are increasingly scrutinizing the credit of crypto intermediaries and considering whether…
Originally Published: July 13, 2022 Updated: July 14, 2022 One of the key unresolved questions surrounding crypto-custodian bankruptcy proceedings under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code is whether or not digital assets that…
Introduction On June 7, U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) (together, the “Senators”) introduced the Responsible Financial Innovation Act, a bipartisan bill that seeks to create a…
On June 1, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (“SDNY”) and the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) unsealed an…
Recent turmoil in the cryptocurrency market has brought issues related to crypto-asset custody to the forefront of the crypto currency discourse;[1] in an enormous $1 trillion crypto-asset crash between approximately…
Concerns over the environmental impact of proof-of-work mining have recently led to increased focus by legislative bodies in Europe and the United States. The use of proof-of-work consensus mechanisms, by…
The cryptocurrency industry last week experienced a turbulence long predicted by industry observers. The third largest stablecoin, TerraUSD (“UST”), lost its one-to-one peg to the U.S. dollar about 10 days…