SEC Halts AriseBank ICO After it Raises $600 Million, Alleges It’s a Scam

The United States Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) has obtained an emergency asset freeze over AriseBank and its co-founders Jared Rice Sr. ...

US State Senators Introduce Bill Exempting Tokens From Securities Laws

Twelve Wyoming Representatives and Senators have introduced a bill backed by the Speaker of the House to exempt "blockchain tokens" from ...

SEC Regulated ICOs – One Law For the Rich, Another For the Rest

Filecoin has just begun the first SEC regulated ICO for accredited investors after raising some $52 million in a pre-sale ...

Ethereum Based Legal Contracts App Wins the Atos Prize

A trio from Lancaster University Computer Science have won a prestigious international competition with their prototype of a blockchain based ...

South Korea Moves to Regulate Bitcoin and Ethereum

Park Yong-jin from the ruling Democratic Party of Korea is to introduce a regulatory framework for digital currencies, according to ...

Bitcoin and Ethereum Follow Metcalfe’s Law of Network Effects New Study Says

Metcalfe's Law, which states that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of its ...

International Law Firm and Digital Assets Start-up Team Up to Offer Blockchain-based Bond Issuance

Winston & Strawn LLP, an international law firm, has teamed up with BlockEx, a blockchain based digital assets platform to ...

Can Law Become Cool with RegTech?

You’ve probably heard of Fintech, Blockchain Tech, InsureTech, maybe even IoT, but have you heard of RegTech, otherwise known as ...

Are Ethereum and Blockchain Based Token Sales Securities?

The invention of ethereum has unleashed a boom in token sales with hundreds of millions of dollars raised so far ...

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