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Even with market structure pushed to the new year, it was another busy week in crypto law with a slew of developments at the SEC and Coinbase getting in the prediction market game.
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Saying last week was a busy one for crypto law would be an understatement. We got massive developments at the SEC and CFTC, all while market structure moves forward in the background.
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Proud that we at The Digital Chamber were able to join @fund-defi in this letter. Citadel blatantly miscited industry advocates and mischaracterized how DeFi technology works, so huge props to DeFi Education fund for setting the record straight.
1/ Citadel got DeFi wrong.
Today, DEF, a16z, The Digital Chamber, Orca Creative, J.W. Verret, and Uniswap Foundation wrote to the SEC in response to Citadel Securities' letter misrepresenting how DeFi technology works.
Why this group? Citadel blatantly miscited us, and we feel obligated to correct the record.
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It was tokenization week last week (continuing into this week with the CFTC announcement yesterday) with the SEC and TradFi all focused on how tokenization can improve markets.
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There was another DePIN no-action letter, and some token sale refund shenanigans in a short Turkey Day week.
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The market structure legislative process is chugging along, there was a new Bitcoin tax payment proposal, and privacy remains a primary focal point.
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The federal government is back to work, and they wasted no time with a major market structure proposal in the Senate and the IRS releasing ETF staking guidance.
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Code is law (kinda) as the criminal trial of the (alleged) MEV exploiting brothers ends in a mistrial, but less great news as one of the Samurai Wallet developers got a max 5 year sentence.
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Prediction markets continue to go toe-to-toe with state gaming regulators on sports-related event contracts, and elected officials got more takes off regarding the CZ pardon.
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The weekly updates are back! And it was a big week, with the Senate trying to hammer through market structure in meetings with crypto execs and a new CFTC Chair nominee.
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In a break from my usual weekly crypto law development updates, some personal news:
I'm excited to announce that I'm leaving my firm to join the Digital Chamber so I can advocate for the industry as a whole! Full update in blog.
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The CFTC and SEC held a joint round-table discussion on ending their regulatory turf war, and the SEC issued some major No Action relief.
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The SEC's planned "innovation exemption" got a timeline and Commissioner Peirce gave a must-read NFT themed speech.
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