From Citrus groves to crypto tokens, the so-called 1946 Supreme Court Howey test for investment securities confronts the digital age. And it has left startups and token lawyers scratching th... Read more
On October 17, 2017, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) newly formed financial technology (fintech) innovation group, LabCFTC, released its first fintech primer, “A CFTC Prime... Read more
I don’t want to miss the chance of contributing to the token legitimacy debate that’s currently going on. From the position I stand in, as head of legal in a decentralized project, and forme... Read more
A second lawsuit was filed this week against the organizers of cybercurrency technology project Tezos, an initiative that raised $232 million to issue a cryptocurrency that does not exist an... Read more
Ethereum is well-known as the technology that has launched hundreds of cryptocurrencies, helped entrepreneurs raise billions of dollars, and disrupted global venture capital markets. But bef... Read more
This essay is the sixth chapter of The Token Handbook. It covers blockchain-based equity offerings. Several things make an equity token offering different from traditional “paper” equity and... Read more
You Can’t Generally Stop Someone From Suing You. In the years before the blockchain buzz, I often would sit in my mentor’s office for conference calls. Even on calls where there was not much... Read more
This is a Guest Post by David Gingell, CMO of legal AI company, Seal Software. The piece was inspired by a recent article in Artificial Lawyer about IBM Watson Legal’s view of how AI and blo... Read more
What will happen to my bitcoin and other assets when I die? This is a question most of us want to avoid, because we don’t know, because we don’t like to think about death, because we can thi... Read more
Tezos raised an astounding $232 million in an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) this past summer. As the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies rocketed higher, some industry followers pegge... Read more
