The U.S. Department of the Treasury ("Treasury") issued temporary regulations to implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act ("FIRRMA").

In a newly released Virtual Markets Integrity Report, the Office of the New York State Attorney General ("NYAG") concluded that many virtual asset trading platforms lack the necessary policies.

The U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York ruled that virtual currencies issued through an initial coin offering ("ICO") may constitute securities under the Securities Act and Exchange Act.

A privately owned company and two individuals settled SEC charges of conducting unregistered securities transactions and acting as unregistered broker-dealers in digital securities.

The New York State Department of Financial Services ("DFS") authorized two companies to offer price-stable cryptocurrencies ("stablecoins") pegged to the U.S. dollar.

FinCEN described the relief as strictly limited to rollovers, renewals, modifications or extensions of any of the above occurring on or after May 11, 2018.

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit handed the Department of Justice a rare defeat on 24 August

Last year, a group of U.S. military veterans and the relatives of troops killed in Iraq filed a lawsuit against several large international pharmaceuticals, accusing them of aiding and abetting terrorism by selling products to Iraq's Ministry of Health which were used to finance operations by the notorious Mahdi Army Group

The SEC Division of Trading and Markets rejected applications for nine exchange-traded funds ("ETFs") tied to bitcoin futures markets from three separate companies – ProShares, Direxion, and GraniteShares – on the grounds that they lacked adequate means of preventing "fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices."

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ("PCAOB") discovered a high number of audit deficiencies among auditors of broker-dealers based on data collected from 75 firms and 116 audits conducted during 2017.

By a three-to-one vote, the SEC rejected a second application by the Bats BZX Exchange ("BZX") (now owned by Cboe Global Markets) to list a bitcoin-backed exchange-traded product ("ETP").

In a study conducted to update its identification of information security risk areas, the Government Accountability Office

FINRA urged firms to notify their FINRA Regulatory Coordinators in writing if they, or their associated persons or affiliates, are currently engaging in or intend to engage ...

The CFTC warned customers to conduct thorough research before purchasing digital coins or tokens (including self-described "utility coins" and "consumption coins").

An attorney and the business affairs manager of his law firm agreed to settle SEC charges of illegally selling shares of a company focused on the application of blockchain technology for food, drugs and healthcare.