It’s Clean-Up Time for ICOs

Dec 10, Crypto Janitors, Mike Minihan by Block Tribune, Mike Minihan

Did the US put forth groundbreaking new securities regulation in 2018? No, but the SEC provided a number of increasingly explicit reminders about the application of existing securities laws to cryptocurrency transactions—particularly ICOs. The public enforcement actions during the past month against Airfox, Paragon, Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled provided concrete proof that the SEC […]

Laying Down the Law: Protecting Against Regulatory Enforcement

Dec 10, BX3, Kawa Foad by BX3 Capital, Kawa Foad

So you wrote a whitepaper, and raised funds from investors to launch your blockchain project. Chances are you probably entered into some simple agreements for future tokens (SAFTs) and/or sold tokens to be used on your platform, regardless of whether the platform was finished or yet-to-be developed. If the latter holds true — which tends to be […]

Messy ICOs: Crypto Janitors Are Here To Help

Dec 6, Crypto Janitors, Mike Minihan by Crypto Briefing, Andrew Ancheta

Legal and accounting cleanup for your (innocent but possibly non-compliant) token sale. Ever get the feeling that the crypto party went too far? One minute everyone’s having fun, raising capital and launching ICO’s while the regulators aren’t home. Then you wake up to December 2018, and the market’s a mess. There are crumpled white papers […]

Crypto Janitors Makes ICOs In Mobile Payments Smoother

Dec 5, Crypto Janitors, Mike Minihan by Payment Week, Steven Anderson

While for a while there—for a long while—the cryptocurrency market looked like a Wild West boom town, the appearance of regulators stepping in shook things up substantially in favor of making things more stable. That’s brought in a lot of new rules, and a much greater potential to run afoul of said rules. That’s what […]

This Year in Crypto Regulations: The United States

Dec 5, BX3, Mike Minihan by Finance Magnates, Rachel McIntosh

The US government’s most significant decision when it comes to crypto regulation? Inaction. The cryptocurrency boom of 2017 brought the attention of regulators the world around. Suddenly, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies transitioned from a largely unregulated libertarian fantasy into a legal target. Despite the seeming urgency of the situation, many regulators were unsure about how […]

State vs. Federal Laws in Cryptocurrency: Blue Sky, or Running in the Red?

Dec 4, BX3 by Philip C. Berg

Philip C. Berg, a longstanding lawyer at New York firm Otterbourg with deep expertise in the cryptocurrency sector, has several thoughts on how regulation of virtual currency should play out in the medium to long term at both the state and federal level. Whether about how federal policy would harmonize state-level regulations or how light-touch […]