Digital Currency + Blockchain Perspectives has been selected to compete in The Expert Institute’s Best Legal Blog Competition. From a field of hundreds of potential nominees, Digital Currency + Blockchain Perspectives has received enough nominations […]View More
Goodwin is a proud sponsor of BlockCon 2017, taking place October 10-11, 2017 in Santa Monica, CA. Grant Fondo, Chair of Goodwin’s Digital Currency + Blockchain Technology practice, will moderate a panel on Wednesday, October […]View More
Recently, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) granted LedgerX, LLC, registration as a derivatives clearing organization (“DCO”) under the Commodity Exchange Act, and with it, the right to clear fully collateralized digital currency swaps, […]View More
Protostarr, a block-chain based startup, has shut down its decentralized application and refunded its initial coin offering (ICO) participants following a request for information from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to the […]View More
Various news sources, including Reuters, are reporting that the People’s Bank of China has issued a joint statement with other Chinese regulators proclaiming that ICOs in China are illegal. See the Reuters article here: China […]View More
Today the SEC issued an Investor Alert warning investors about companies asserting they are engaging in an ICO, when in fact it is a scam. Specifically, “The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is […]View More
Kelsey Lemaster, a partner in Goodwin’s tax practice, will be a featured speaker at the CoinAlts Fund Symposium on Thursday, September 14 in San Francisco. Lemaster – whose practice is focused on corporate mergers and […]View More
Goodwin partner and chair of the firm’s digital currency + blockchain technology practice, Grant Fondo, sat down with John Furrier at theCUBE last week to discuss the current landscape for Blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings […]View More
Goodwin has recently joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) Legal Industry Working Group alongside 13 other leading law firms and academic institutions, bringing together top global law firms and leading legal minds to explore building […]View More
On July 26, 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a grand jury in the Northern District of California had indicted Alexander Vinnik, a Russian national, and BTC-e, the bitcoin exchange that Vinnik allegedly […]View More
