Rebecca Rettig, partner at FisherBroyles, talks about Kik’s answer this week to the SEC’s complaint, why she predicted they would make this move as opposed to filing a motion to[…]
Tag: SEC
All Things Crypto Regulation With Jake Chervinsky
Jake Chervinsky, general counsel at Compound, goes over a plethora of crypto regulatory issues, such as those related to securities law such as the SEC vs. Kik case, Ripple, stablecoins, no-action[…]
Jeremy Allaire on Why the US Government Needs a New Category for Digital Assets
Jeremy Allaire, cofounder and CEO of Circle, explains why the company has opened a new subsidiary in Bermuda, obtained a full Digital Assets Business Act license there and how it[…]
Why the Congressional Hearings on Facebook’s Libra Were Good for Bitcoin
Peter Van Valkenburgh, director of research at Coin Center, explains the significance of all the governmental activity around crypto in the last week — the President’s tweets, the Treasury Secretary’s[…]
Why Crypto Regulation Is Surprisingly Cypherpunk
Lawson Baker, head of operations and general counsel at TokenSoft (disclosure: a previous sponsor of the podcast), explains the significance of this week’s SEC statement on broker-dealer custody of digital[…]
Kin Sets Up $5 Million DefendCrypto.org to Take on the SEC
Ted Livingston, CEO of Kik and the founder of the Kin Foundation, and Patrick Gibbs, partner at Cooley, announce the formation of the $5 million DefendCrypto.org fund at Coinbase Custody to[…]
Blockstack’s Reg A+ Filing and the Future of Token Offerings
Zachary Fallon, a former SEC staffer and author of the Reg A JOBS Act crowdfunding rules and a principal at Blakemore Fallon, discusses Blockstack’s filing for a token offering under[…]
How Useful Is the SEC’s Guidance on ICOs?
Marco Santori, the president and chief legal officer of Blockchain, discusses this week’s big regulatory news — the SEC’s guidance on initial coin offerings and its first no-action letter. We[…]
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce: Come Talk to the SEC
In a fireside chat I moderated with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce held by the Blockchain Digital Asset Forum, in conjunction with the NYU Stern Executive MBA program, on March 26,[…]
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss on Being the ‘Fastest Tortoise in the Race’
Gemini’s Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, who serve as chief executive and president, respectively, discuss their new ad campaign — what they mean when they say crypto needs rules, why they[…]