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Most of our time is spent engaging with policymakers in D.C. and around the country. However, our experts are often called upon to help the media get a handle on...
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Munchee Settlement Puts the Utility Token Argument to the Test
Coin Center’s analysis of the recent SEC enforcement action against an ICO found to be in violation of securities law.
The SEC’s settlement with Munchee is an important milestone in the young history of token law, because it begins to challenge the naive version of the utility token argument and...
Congress’s anti-money laundering bill (S. 1241): Coin Center is on it
An update on our work to minimize the confusion that this redundant bill could cause.
The “Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017,” also known as S. 1241, has been getting a fair amount of attention since we first wrote about it...
Good news: Ethereum’s CryptoKitties are probably not securities.
Ethereum just got overrun with cats; the cats are literally slowing down the network with their feline machinations, their idiosyncratic personalities, and yes, their breeding… lots of cat breeding… on...
Coin Center statement on IRS Coinbase order.
While the court granted a narrowed version of the IRS’s original request for Coinbase customer data, we remain deeply unsatisfied with the lack of justification provided by the IRS. Without...
Video of the Rules Committee meeting is below and you can watch Rep. Jared Polis speak about the bill that he co-sponsored with Rep. David Schweikert. The amendment would have...
How do token sales fit with securities regulations?
The case for treating some crypto-tokens as securities—and some not.
There are many types of digital tokens, ranging from tightly controlled airline miles to open and decentralized systems like Bitcoin. In this video explainer, Coin Center Director of Research Peter...
The SAFT Is a Symptom of Regulatory Uncertainty
In his first monthly column for CoinDesk, Brito argues that the SAFT framework, despite its limitations, is a reasonable path forward for token issuers. This article originally appeared in CoinDesk.
Let’s put to rest a common misconception. During a recent fintech conference at Georgetown Law, Brian Quintenz, a commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said that crypto-tokens offered in a pre-sale...
We briefed the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force.
Senator Orrin Hatch, chairman of the taskforce, convened a Blockchain 101 briefing for republican policymakers and their staff. Coin Center executive director Jerry Brito was joined on the panel by...
Coin Center gave a regulatory update at Ethereum Devcon3.
At the Ethereum community’s largest conference, executive director Jerry Brito and director of research Peter Van Valkenburgh took the stage after the project’s lead developers to give the audience an...