Tagged: the blockchain association

April 17, 2023 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

On Wednesday, April 19, 2023, the House Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Fintech, and Inclusion, will hold a hearing on stablecoins. The hearing is being joined by draft legislation that may end up providing a viable path to regulate this new form of payments and transfers…. Read More

September 25, 2022 @ 3:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

California state legislation focusing on cryptocurrency has been vetoed by Governor Gavin Newsom. The bill,  A.B. 2269, had passed the California Assembly and was presented to the Governor on September 12, 2022. The legislation was vetoed this past Friday (September 23, 2022). The Governor published… Read More

August 10, 2021 @ 5:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier today the US Senate voted on a massive bill that, while labeled infrastructure, included a cornucopia of pet projects and unrelated policy goals. Squirreled away in the legislation was language designed to raise revenue by taxing crypto transactions as well as broadly defining the… Read More

April 21, 2020 @ 12:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Blockchain Association has created a Security Token Working Group to collaborate with industry participants, policymakers and regulators. The group will be co-chaired by Georgia Quinn, General Counsel of CoinList, and Alex Levine, Chief Legal Officer of TokenSoft, two primary issuance platforms that are regulatory… Read More

April 8, 2020 @ 2:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Telegram has been engaged in an ongoing battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding the sale of GRAM tokens – an offering that raised $1.7 billion. The legal fisticuffs kicked off last October when the SEC filed an emergency action and obtained a… Read More

September 30, 2019 @ 8:25 am By JD Alois  |  

A prominent group of digital asset trading platforms have joined together to launch the Crypto Rating Council (CRC)- an entity that will rate digital asset offerings as to whether they qualify as securities under existing US law. The founding members of the Council include: Coinbase… Read More

July 25, 2019 @ 2:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

There is a lot of debate regarding the efficacy of distributed ledger technology (DLT)/Blockchain and how it will impact financial services as well as other industries. Regardless of your point of view, it is clear that blockchain has compelled established financial firms to up their… Read More