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Cryptocurrencies, Digital Assets & Blockchain Technology
As interest in digital assets continues to rise, novel and complex legal issues emerge continually. Winston’s cross-border interdisciplinary team provides comprehensive regulatory, litigation, and transactional services on the array of issues confronting the digital assets industry. Our dedicated team features pioneering attorneys in the sector, leading litigators, former senior regulators, and in-house counsel.
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Financial services companies in the financial technology (FinTech) space are contributing to rapid technological advances and innovation in the development, offering, and delivery of core financial products and services. Winston’s FinTech, Banking & Payments attorneys support these companies throughout the entire FinTech business life cycle, from proof of concept through maturity, including federal and state licensing and registration, regulatory compliance and risk management, structured finance, M&A, and private equity, intellectual property (IP) management, and supervision and enforcement. Our clients include banks, FinTech companies, private equity and other investors, money services businesses, trust companies, consumer finance companies, investment advisers, and other financial firms.
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Experience
|July 15, 2025
Atsion Commits Up to $200 Million in Strategic OFA Investment
Winston & Strawn is representing Atsion Opportunity Fund LLC – Series 1 in connection with its committed equity facility of up to US$200M with OFA Group. The facility enables OFA to issue and sell ordinary shares over a 36-month period to support its cryptocurrency treasury strategy.
Experience
|October 1, 2023
Class Action Plaintiff Sent Packing After Winston Secures Enforcement of Binance’s Terms of Use
A Winston team secured a decisive victory for a major cryptocurrency exchange (and provided a potential roadmap for other online businesses seeking to enforce arbitration clauses in their terms of service) this week when a federal judge granted a motion to compel arbitration.
Experience
|December 14, 2021
Aries I Acquisition Corp. Business Combination with InfiniteWorld
Winston & Strawn LLP is representing Aries I Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: RAM) (“Aries”), a special purpose acquisition company, in connection with its business combination with Infinite Assets, Inc. (“InfiniteWorld”), a leading Metaverse infrastructure platform that enables brands to create, monetize, and drive consumer engagement with digital content, that upon consummation is expected to result in InfiniteWorld becoming a publicly traded company with a pro forma equity value of approximately US$700M, assuming no redemptions by Aries’s public shareholders. Upon closing of the transaction, the combined company is expected to be listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “JPG.” InfiniteWorld’s comprehensive and fully digital platform provides a full-service suite of end-to-end solutions that enable brands and creators to engage with consumers in the Metaverse, a shared online space that converges physical, augmented, and virtual reality. The transaction will provide up to US$171M of cash to the combined company (before transaction expenses and assuming no redemptions by Aries’s public shareholders) from the approximately US$145M of cash in trust at Aries as well as cash on hand at InfiniteWorld. In addition, InfiniteWorld owns cryptocurrencies valued at approximately US$93M based on recent prices on Coinbase. All InfiniteWorld stockholders will roll 100% of their equity holdings into the combined company.
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Webinar
|March 23, 2026
Clarity Before CLARITY: Inside the Joint SEC and CFTC Digital Asset Guidance
After years of enforcement-driven uncertainty, the SEC and CFTC have issued landmark joint interpretive relief that reshapes the regulatory framework for digital assets.
Tax Impacts
|March 20, 2026
|1 Min Read
IRS Extends Digital Asset Reporting Relief Through 2026 Under Notice 2026-20
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) extended the temporary relief for digital asset–specific identification rules with the release of Notice 2026‑20, which builds on last year’s Notice 2025‑7 by continuing to permit taxpayers to make adequate identification of broker‑custodied digital assets on their own books and records.
Non-Fungible Insights: Blockchain Decrypted
|March 19, 2026
|6 Min Read
FCA Handbook Application for Regulated Cryptoasset Activities – Key Takeaways from CP26/4
The close of 2025 highlighted the continuing momentum for the digital asset industry, with regulatory developments accelerating rather than slowing.
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Cryptocurrency is generally defined as a digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography for security and operates independent of a government, central bank, or similar authority. Cryptography is used to regulate the release of currency units and to verify financial transactions. Users of cryptocurrency generally send to each other through a peer-to-peer network, while remaining anonymous. The currency transfers occur through public and private keys. Every transaction is a file that includes the public keys of the sender and the recipient, as well as the amount of currency transferred. The transaction also requires the sender to confirm the transfer with a private key.
Law Glossary
What Is the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team?
The National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) is part of the DOJ’s Criminal Division. It is to identify, investigate, support, and pursue cases involving the criminal use of digital assets, with a particular focus on virtual currency exchanges, mixing and tumbling services, infrastructure providers, and other entities that are enabling the misuse of cryptocurrency and related technologies to commit or facilitate criminal activity.
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Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that was created and issued independent of a central bank or government. Users can purchase bitcoins through an exchange and store them in a digital wallet. They can then purchase goods or services from vendors who accept payment in bitcoin. Transactions using bitcoin are made using encrypted codes, which are exchanged across a peer-to-peer network with anonymity. Digital wallets hold bitcoin addresses, which are unique indicators consisting of alphanumeric characters. Those making purchases can start a transfer request from their bitcoin address.