Lowenstein Crypto advises leading digital asset and cryptocurrency projects, exchanges, and trading firms. Our practice covers regulatory advice, transactions and structuring advice, investigations, and adversarial matters including commercial disputes, bankruptcy, and related litigation. As these markets continue their rapid growth and market participants continue to evolve and mature their businesses, we are providing this weekly digest as a resource that highlights and summarizes a selection of key recent legal regulatory developments.
SEC Chair Atkins Touts ‘Project Crypto,’ Crypto-Token Taxonomy, and Forthcoming ‘Innovation Exemption’
On April 21, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or the Commission) Chairman Paul S. Atkins delivered keynote remarks at The Economic Club of Washington, D.C., in which he sharply criticized the prior administration’s regulatory posture toward digital assets. Atkins noted that “innovators found that engaging with the SEC often relatively
