Law & Policy

Code is law? Fairly substantial ruling in the Mango Markets criminal case last week while DeFi patents are getting litigated elsewhere. 

Here’s everything that happened in Crypto Law last week:

Code is law? Fairly substantial ruling in the Mango Markets criminal case last week while DeFi patents are getting litigated elsewhere. 

Here’s everything that happened in Crypto Law last week: https://nfttorney.com/2025/05/27/off-the-blockchain-may-19-26-2025/

Tech Transactions and IP attorney with an NFT obsession. I like suing people. Get all my legal updates here: https://linktr.ee/birdnals

Data scientist. Interested in most of the kinds of things that job implies, among others.

Venue was the right call and the wire fraud I could go either way with (he did legit fraud with fake id’s and such; whether that was “material” or the implicit fraud stuff is 🤷‍♂️). But what he is going to jail for is indisputably deserved.

Interesting they let him off on wire fraud (I think right call) but CSAM stuff is horrific. Had no idea about that aspect of the case