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Troutman Pepper’s The Crypto Exchange podcast explores the trends, challenges, and legal issues our clients and others in the industry face daily. Featuring insights from the firm’s FinTech and Payments practice groups, our podcast examines everything from NFTs to Web3, bitcoin to blockchain, fintech to regtech, and payment processing to data processing. Our Troutman Pepper attorneys, along with industry experts and insiders, will walk you through the federal and state regulatory, legal, and business intricacies of this rapidly evolving industry sector.

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…

On April 7, in front of American University’s Kogod School of Business Center for Innovation, Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen addressed the Biden administration’s forthcoming legislative approach to digital assets, as we discussed here, as well as the digitization of the American economy, which Yellen assessed through the lens of five lessons she…