Hodder Law Newsletter Archive
A record of past newsletter editions covering crypto regulation, compliance, and industry news.
March 16, 2022
Russia sanctions and crypto exchange compliance, Biden’s digital assets executive order and CBDC concerns, the SEC eyeing NFTs as potential securities, and Virginia’s new bank crypto-custody law. Read it here
August 23, 2022
Fallout from the U.S. Treasury’s Tornado Cash sanctions, plus Florida’s OFR licensing timeline squeezing new Bitcoin ATM and OTC operators. Read it here
September 13, 2022
Coinbase’s lawsuit funding challenge to OFAC’s Tornado Cash sanctions, the FBI/Chainalysis recovery of stolen North Korean hacker funds, Michael Saylor’s continued MicroStrategy bitcoin buying, and Pierre Poilievre’s election as Canada’s pro-Bitcoin Conservative leader. Read it here
September 20, 2022
Bitcoin price strength, the early Tornado Cash lawsuit developments, and tightening crypto regulatory pressure. Read it here
September 27, 2022
Do Kwon’s Interpol arrest warrant, Australia’s CBDC pilot timeline, DARPA’s crypto-tracking initiative, the CFTC’s Ooki DAO enforcement action, and California’s veto of a crypto licensing bill. Read it here
October 12, 2022
Visa’s FTX-linked debit card rollout, the LBRY v. SEC ruling on the Howey Test, and the Fifth Circuit overturning OFAC’s Tornado Cash sanctions. Read it here
November 1, 2022
Binance’s $500M investment in Musk’s Twitter takeover, Hong Kong’s new VASP licensing regime for crypto exchanges, congressional scrutiny of former regulators joining crypto firms, and the SBF-vs-Voorhees debate over crypto industry self-regulation standards. Read it here
November 8, 2022
A conversation with Joshua Scigala on the risks Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) pose to individual freedoms. Read it here
November 30, 2022
BlockFi’s bankruptcy filing and the SEC’s position as a top creditor, a Texas regulator’s hearing summons for Sam Bankman-Fried, BlockFi’s lawsuit against SBF over unpaid Robinhood shares, and multiple state regulators investigating Genesis Global Capital. Read it here
December 8, 2022
Genesis creditors owed $1.8B and Celsius’s court-ordered depositor repayments, NYDFS’s proposal to bill crypto businesses for regulatory supervision, and BlockFi’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing following the FTX collapse. Read it here
March 23, 2023
Signature Bank’s receivership and questions about government power over private banks, plus a CoinDesk interview on Coinbase’s Supreme Court arbitration case. Read it here or read the related Signature Bank Receivership article
April 13, 2023
Binance.US’s struggle to secure banking partners after the failures of Signature and Silvergate, Arkansas’s new bill protecting Bitcoin mining rights, and mounting political and think tank criticism of FedNow and CBDCs as threats to financial privacy. Read it here
April 21, 2023
The SEC’s reopened comment period on classifying DeFi platforms as exchanges (notably citing Hodder Law’s own submitted comments), the House Committee’s draft stablecoin bill, and questions raised about SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s past promotion of Algorand. Read it here
May 1, 2023
Binance.US’s collapsed $1B acquisition of Voyager Digital, the EU’s MiCA legislation as a potential global regulatory standard, and the launch of the first U.S. Bitcoin-based real estate marketplace via Coinbase. Read it here
May 5, 2023
A Lightning Network node upgrade aimed at wider adoption, Rep. Patrick McHenry’s timeline for a House crypto bill, and PayPal’s Venmo enabling transfers from external Bitcoin wallets. Read it here
May 12, 2023
Montana’s new bill protecting Bitcoin mining from unfair local restrictions, Voyager’s liquidation after its Binance deal collapsed, and Binance pausing withdrawals amid Bitcoin network congestion. Read it here