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March 25, 2025

SEC Vs Ripple Lawsuit Dropped

By Nina Bambysheva. (Forbes). March 25, 2025. RIPPLE CEO SAYS SEC HAS DROPPED ITS LAWSUIT AGAINST THE COMPANY Brad Garlinghouse didn’t bury the lede. “It’s over,” the CEO of Ripple declared in a video posted to X on Wednesday, announcing the end of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s yearslong lawsuit against his company, the developer of the […]
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March 7, 2024

Government’s Attack Vectors

By Kristi Warner The government’s approach to remedies and bitcoin mining are similar examples of agencies utilizing tools at their disposal to attack the crypto industry.  Remedies In July 2023, the SEC lost in the Ripple case on the main legal theories – Judge Torres ruled that secondary market sales were not sales of unregistered […]
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February 20, 2024

CryptoLaw: Looking Ahead

By Kristi Warner Since CryptoLaw launched in 2021, we have accomplished so much as a community. John started CryptoLaw as a reaction to “gross government overreach” – his goal was to build a trusted platform that people could turn to for news, updates, and analysis on legal and policy issues related to digital assets and […]
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May 22, 2025

What the “Trump effect” teaches us about crypto hype

By Stu Alderoty. Fast Company. 5/20/25. The last six months have been a strange, exhilarating time for crypto. First, there was the so-called “Trump effect”—a surge in crypto prices and on-chain activity triggered by the then president-elect’s vocal support of crypto. Then came the viral “Hawk Tuah” meme, which somehow alchemized into a crypto memecoin […]
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April 28, 2025

The White House Crypto Summit: A Turning Point for Financial Advisors

By John Deaton. DACFP. March 15, 2025. On March 7, 2025, the White House hosted its inaugural Crypto Summit, a watershed moment signaling a dramatic shift in the U.S. government’s approach to digital assets. Spearheaded by President Trump and Crypto Czar David Sacks, the event brought together Crypto heavyweights like Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong, Ripple’s Brad […]
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April 17, 2025

Ripple Settlement Offers Hope For Better Regulatory Future

By J.W. Verret. Law360. April 16, 2025. Editor’s note: Law360 welcomes opinionated commentary and debate in our Expert Analysis section. To submit op-eds or rebuttals, or to speak to an editor about submissions, please email [email protected]. Four years ago, I wrote that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s approach to cryptocurrency regulation was “haphazard and […]
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