BITS OF BLOCKS
BLOCKCHAIN, LAW AND REGULATION
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
Michael Bacina, Partner, Travers Thorp Alberga
Debate heats up over digital assets industry standards
CEO and co-founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has released a draft set of possible digital asset industry standards that could be enacted...
Do you need a token dealing policy? Managing insider trading, fraud and conflicts risk
The past year has seen two high profile incidents involving buying or selling crypto-assets (tokens and NFTs) based on information...
Citizen Blockchain: The ‘Rosebud’ of NFTs up for sale in CityDAO
Decentralised autonomous organisations – or DAOs – are continually evolving our understanding of the interaction between physical and...
Australian Senate Crypto Report - Recommendation 3: digital asset characterisation
The Senate Select Committee Report into Australia as a Technology and Financial Centre's Final Report considered ways in which Australia...
Recent proposals on prudential treatment of crypto-assets
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) recently released a Consultative Document on...
Binance's Tokenized Stock Trading
After launching Binance Stock Tokens, Binance.com is now allowing users to trade tokens which represent fractions of companies' shares....
Israel Securities Authority: "utility tokens" are securities
The Israel Securities Authorities has recently declared that as far digital tokens planned to be issued by Iseral tech startup Kirobo are...
Promising US Securities Clarity Act consigned to regulatory purgatory
Following the introduction of the Securities Clarity Act (H.R. 8378) by Congressman Tom Emmer, and an immediate referral to the House...