Legal

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce drew a sharp line around decentralized finance on Sept. 17. She said investors need no exemption to use …

The U.S. Senate blocked the advancement of the CLARITY Act with a 49–50 vote on September 15. The $XRP token posted a …

In brief OpenAI has asked lawmakers whether rival AI developers could legally coordinate a slowdown, according to WIRED. Experts say funding and …

“The master securityholder file used to be paper in a filing cabinet,” said Joris Delanoue, CEO of SEC-registered onchain transfer agent Fairmint. …

The fallen leader of the former top exchange FTX is looking for answers from the U.S. Supreme Court. www.coindesk.com

Canada’s federal banking regulator has formally clarified that tokenized and other digitally represented deposits are not legally distinct from traditional deposits, removing …

The SEC’s new proposal to overhaul transfer-agent rules could eliminate duplicate offchain shareholder records, reducing reconciliation costs and legal uncertainty for tokenized …

This latest U.S. appeals court ruling sets up a rift between federal courts on event contracts, suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court may …

The courtroom combat across state and federal courts is so far producing roughly split outcomes, suggesting a big job may be coming …

World Liberty Financial, the decentralized finance (DeFi) project associated with the Trump family, has appointed Mack McCain as its chief legal officer …