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March 28, 2019
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The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on March 15, 2019, that the staff of its Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology, known as FinHub, will hold a forum focusing on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and digital assets.
January 22, 2019
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When Is a Crypto Asset a “Security,” and Why Does That Matter? (Part II)
In our January 17 blog, the Crypto Law Corner explained that SEC-registered investment advisers must apply the so-called “Howey test,” on a case–by-case basis, to determine whether a particular crypto asset is a security, and suggested that applying the Howey test can prove daunting to SEC-registered investment advisers in the event they are required to determine whether particular crypto assets are “securities.”
January 17, 2019
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When Is a Crypto Asset a “Security,” and Why Does That Matter? (Part I)
There is a very broad range of crypto assets, including: “digital,” “crypto” and “virtual” currencies; “virtual” coins or tokens; and “traditional” equity or debt securities that have been “digitized” or “tokenized.” Drawing distinctions between different types of crypto assets is important because the regulatory treatment of a particular crypto asset depends in large part on whether or not it is a security.
January 9, 2019
|4 min read
Welcome to the Non-Fungible Insights: Blockchain Decrypted Blog
Winston & Strawn’s Non-Fungible Insights: Blockchain Decrypted tracks and provides user-friendly explanations of legal and regulatory developments concerning crypto assets.