🚀 Spring 2025 Legal Internship Opportunity 🚀

Are you a law student passionate about the future of DeFi and crypto broadly, and looking to gain hands-on experience?

Look no further than DEF's Spring 2025 legal internship 🫡

To apply, please share a resume, cover letter, and transcript to max@defieducationfund.org

Additional details can be found at the link:
https://www.defieducationfund.org/_files/ugd/84ba66_2cd01ba2ebe3465483d62a59dcf0a1d5.pdf

Law & Policy

Hold onto your knickers - Crypto Policy meetup is on its way. 10/10 see you there
https://lu.ma/5j7hhfvl

Many thanks to @dantheman for coordinating a NYC Lawcasters happy hour on Thursday 10/10.

For those that need a bit more convincing, @garyweinstein wrote this fantastic piece in Forbes about PubKey. 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/07/30/bitcoin-burgers-and-beer-community-on-tap-at-pubkey/

https://warpcast.com/dantheman/0x63cdb19f

| an eternal learner 🧠 |
Things @ Collider Ventures

Founder & Principal, Infinity Advisory LLC | ex: Zcash Global Regulatory, Assistant Attorney General // Not Legal Advice
icebreaker.xyz/gary

Those coming to NYC next week for Mainnet 2024, let me know if you want to grab a coffee and come check out our office views at One Vanderbilt.

Ethereum

/ethereum foundation | control the memes control the minds paragraph.xyz/@chaskin

Crypto Attorney, Web2 Founder, Farcaster Maxi. Moderator for /law-policy

Wow, major FOMO.  Definitely interested in the next one @chaskin.eth !

In its latest Order, the SEC is going after NFTs “omakase style.”

https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/admin/2024/33-11305.pdf

Base

Base meet up courtesy of #OnChainSummer tomorrow in NYC?  Sign me up!  🔥

Link:

Base meet up courtesy of #OnChainSummer tomorrow in NYC?  Sign me up!  🔥

Link: https://lu.ma/adovj56x

🚨🚨🚨Today, DEF is excited to share that we have resolved all disputes related to the patent claiming invention of oracle-like technology owned by True Return Systems (TRS).

Nashville

Thanks @codeofcrypto , happy to connect in DMs @johnny-tvl

Any law and policy folks going to BTC Conference?  Happy to grab a meal/drink, DMs open 🤙

Crypto payments for small businesses. Contributing to the mainstream use of crypto. @gogh
ongogh.com /shop-la

Thanks for the connect @codeofcrypto , happy to discuss further @manuelmaccou.eth

Look forward to meeting many Lawcasters at Consensus.  

Our Law & Policy Happy Hour is Tuesday 5/28 at 5pm — feel free to reach out for more details!

https://warpcast.com/codeofcrypto/0x54ab714b

What an amazing turnout yesterday, I counted 40+ Lawcasters at Live Oak! 

@ni1 @gus @cryptotaxguy.eth @cryptolaw @danielkaltman @cryptolawprof @anoncounsel @mikeselig @rho @mccall-b-wells @dfi @kia.eth @karam @shubhs 

It was fun to meet/reconnect with all of you!

Building something. Founder @ DC DAO. Web3 GC. Fintech & healthcare VC in a past life. Board @ Virginia Blockchain Council, prev Party Round, Nation.io

lawyer and investor @ True Ventures / fmr GC Paradigm, Circle, DHS / law, tech, policy, security, crypto
 / coldebella.substack.com

partner at Willkie Farr. crypto and finreg lawyer. prev CFTC. not legal advice. not your lawyer.

Tax partner & digital assets co-head @ Fried Frank. Art appreciatoor. Casts are not advice. Twit: CryptoTaxGuyETH. Deca: https://deca.art/CryptoTaxGuy

michael passalacqua • sharing crypto & finreg stuff • views = my own • casts ≠ legal advice • not ur lawyer…unless you hire willkie farr 

lawyer and doggo lover passionate about using tech for public good and social validation

Expert Forensic Accounting in Crypto Litigation, Professor of Corporate/Securities/Banking Law & of Forensic Accounting

Lawyer, ETH maxi.  I do full time crypto and blockchain law at BigLaw’s only crypto exclusive team.  None of my posts are legal advice. 

What an amazing turnout yesterday, I counted 40+ Lawcasters at Live Oak! 

@ni1 @gus @cryptotaxguy.eth @cryptolaw @danielkaltman @cryptolawprof @anoncounsel @mikeselig @rho @mccall-b-wells @dfi @kia.eth @karam @shubhs 

It was fun to meet/reconnect with all of you!

https://warpcast.com/codeofcrypto/0xef44ad11

Welcome

At Consensus next week?  Calling all blockchain and crypto legal or compliance folks!  

Shoot me a DM with your email so I can send you an official calendar invite.

Dogecoin made it into an opinion of the U.S Supreme Court.  Never thought I’d hear those words.

politics

Stand With Crypto is proud to share that we have submitted a letter to Congress on behalf of 108 US-based crypto organizations advocating for the passage of the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT21).

Read the full letter:

Stand With Crypto is proud to share that we have submitted a letter to Congress on behalf of 108 US-based crypto organizations advocating for the passage of the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT21).

Read the full letter: 

https://x.com/standwithcrypto/status/1792986369515565565

Uniswap

Today we responded to the SEC’s Wells notice

We believe DeFi is revolutionary and we’re going to fight to protect it

Summary of our response and the full 40 page document here:
https://blog.uniswap.org/the-fight-for-defi-continues

Cross-casting for those that have been following Uniswap v. SEC.  @uniswap presents a number of important arguments and, notably, their legal team is undefeated in high-profile SEC litigation.

The largest onchain marketplace. Buy and sell crypto on Ethereum and 10+ other chains.

Cross-casting for those that have been following Uniswap v. SEC.  @uniswap presents a number of important arguments and, notably, their legal team is undefeated in high-profile SEC litigation. 

https://warpcast.com/uniswap/0x1642500f

DOJ seems to be going after MEV bot actors now.  Add it to the list of cases to keep a close eye on.