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Central District of California Authorizes Service of John Doe Summons on Cryptocurrency Dealer

On August 15, 2022, the United States District Court for the Central District of California authorized the IRS to serve a “John Doe” summons on Ox Labs Inc., a cryptocurrency prime dealer doing business as SFOX. The John Doe summons calls for Ox Labs to divulge information about U.S. taxpayers who engaged in…

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SEC Enforcement Broadens its Crypto Focus

Digital Currency Perspectives authors Alexis Coll-Very, Grant Fondo and Robert Tiefenbrun recently posted an alert regarding the SEC announcement that it settled charges against NVIDIA Corporation. The SEC has alleged that the company’s disclosures regarding the impacts of increased use of its gaming products by cryptocurrency miners were inadequate and…

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FinCEN Issues Report Addressing NFTs

On February 4, 2022, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) jumped into the regulatory discussion about non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”)—more with a whisper than a bang—in a report on its Study of the Facilitation of Money Laundering and Terror Finance Through the Trade in Works of Art. The report…

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tZERO ATS Settlement with SEC: Square Peg/Round Hole or Simple Failure to Follow Existing Rules?

On January 10, 2022, tZERO’s ATS settled a matter with the SEC in which it agreed to an $800,000 fine.  Given the size of the penalty and substantial attention on the SEC’s approach to regulating digital asset securities, readers may have thought that this would present a blockbuster set of…

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Employee Incentive Vehicles for Digital Asset Companies

People are often the most valuable asset for growing technology companies, and attracting and retaining top talent is all-the-more important when dealing with emerging technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrencies.  For most private companies, the path for creating meaningful incentives for service providers is well-trodden—they can use a traditional equity incentive…

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SEC to Wyoming (Division of Banking): Interpreting Federal Securities Laws and Rules is our Domain

In early November 2020, the staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Division of Investment Management (“IM Division”), in consultation with the SEC’s “FinHub” staff, issued a statement in response to a No-Action Letter from the Wyoming Division of Banking purporting to provide interpretive guidance on both Wyoming…

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