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BLOCKCHAIN, LAW AND REGULATION
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
Michael Bacina, Partner, NXT Law
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Digital Curren-sieze? New bill proposes broad seizure powers over digital assets
The Australian Parliament will debate whether to enact a bill giving criminal authorities broad powers to seize digital assets. The...
Mar 28, 20242 min read


SBF Sentenced in FTX Failure Fraud Fallout
Today Sam Bankman-Fried (commonly known as SBF), former CEO and founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was sentenced to 25...
Mar 28, 20243 min read


Easter tidings as Cryptopia lays distribution plans
Cryptopia, a New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange, has received Court approval to begin returning cryptocurrencies to its users...
Mar 27, 20242 min read


Immutable and King River back $100m Web3 games fund
Immutable, Polygon Labs and King River Capital have united to back the Inevitable Games Fund (IGF), to encourage growth and innovation in...
Mar 27, 20241 min read


Is your crypto Safu? Institutional crypto custody in Australia
After the US approved its' first spot Bitcoin exchange traded funds (ETF) earlier this year, Bitcoin has soared to historically high...
Mar 27, 20243 min read


BlackRock launches tokenised fund, catches meme-coin fever
Investment titan BlackRock has taken another step into digital assets revealing an Ethereum-based tokenised fund, the 'BlackRock USD...
Mar 22, 20242 min read


ASIC eyes tokenised markets
Commissioner Alan Kirkland of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) delivered a speech on crypto policy, innovation...
Mar 22, 20243 min read


Tornado Cash accusations fly as software developers face trial
Alexey Pertsev, one of the software developers involved in the development of the software underpinning the sanctioned crypto mixing...
Mar 21, 20242 min read


ATO drops new small business guidance for crypto dealings
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has recently released new crypto-related guidance for Australian small businesses, noting the trend...
Mar 19, 20242 min read
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