On March 31, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121 (Bulletin), noting that a company safeguarding or exerting custody over cryptocurrency on behalf of its platform users must clearly report the users’ assets as liabilities on the company’s financial statement, along with the risks consumers face by entrusting the company
Elizabeth Waldbeser
Elizabeth is an associate in the firm’s Business Litigation Practice Group. She represents clients in a diverse array of litigation matters in federal and state courts at the trial and appellate levels.
World’s Largest Cryptocurrency Exchange Wins Dismissal of Class-Action Lawsuit
On March 31, a New York federal court dismissed a proposed securities class-action lawsuit filed against Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The lawsuit, one of a host of similar actions brought against cryptocurrency exchanges in 2020, was filed by token buyers who purchased cryptocurrency on Binance’s platform.
The plaintiffs asserted that Binance had violated…