2023 Year in Review: SEC Cryptocurrency Enforcement

Overview of 2023 Year in Review: SEC Cryptocurrency Enforcement

Panelists discuss the state of cryptocurrency and 2023 developments, then analyze the SEC's enforcement stance and its actions against players like Binance, Kraken, and Coinbase, unraveling key cases. They review the bipartisan Senate bill aimed at regulating DeFi protocols and share takeaways from 2023 and expectations for 2024.

What you’ll learn in 2023 Year in Review: SEC Cryptocurrency Enforcement

• Assess the state of cryptocurrency and 2023 developments
• Analyze the SEC's crypto enforcement actions and key cases
• Explain federal legislative efforts to regulate DeFi
• Anticipate crypto enforcement trends into 2024

Curriculum

1. 1. State of Cryptocurrency and the SEC

   The state of crypto and 2023 developments.

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2. 2. Increased Enforcement Actions in 2023

   SEC actions against Binance, Kraken, Coinbase and key cases.

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3. 3. Efforts Towards Federal Regulations for DeFi

   The bipartisan Senate bill to regulate DeFi protocols.

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4. 4. Key Takeaways From 2023 and Looking Forward at 2024

   Panel takeaways and expectations for the coming year.

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Your instructors

Daniel B. Garrie

Founder, Law & Forensics; Neutral at JAMS; Faculty at Harvard

Law & Forensics LLC · JAMS · Harvard · Rutgers Law School · Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare

Daniel B. Garrie is the founder and executive managing partner of Law & Forensics LLC, a boutique cybersecurity and forensic engineering firm he co-founded in 2008. He serves as a neutral, arbitrator, and forensic special master at JAMS, focusing on cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, and complex technology disputes, and holds faculty appointments at Harvard and Rutgers Law School. A patented software inventor and prolific author, he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare and a widely cited authority on computer forensics, eDiscovery, and cyber litigation.

Joshua Ashley Klayman

Firmwide Co-Lead of Digital Assets, Blockchain and Custody, Ashurst Perkins Coie

Linklaters

Joshua Ashley Klayman is Firmwide Co-Lead of Digital Assets, Blockchain and Custody at Ashurst Perkins Coie in New York. She advises digital-native companies, regulated businesses, global financial institutions, public companies and foreign governments on tokenization, stablecoin and token issuances, digital financial market infrastructure, and the application of the Uniform Commercial Code to digital assets and custody. From 2019 to 2026 she was Linklaters' U.S. Head of Fintech and Head of Blockchain and Digital Assets; from 2013 to 2018 she founded and chaired Morrison Foerster's Blockchain and Smart Contracts Group. The SEC and the CFTC have invited her to speak at their fintech-focused events and forums, and she co-founded Diversity in Blockchain, Inc. She holds a J.D. from Temple University's Beasley School of Law. At Legal Cyber Academy she teaches on blockchain, cryptocurrency, and digital asset regulation.

Tiffany Smith

Partner and Co-Chair, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Working Group, WilmerHale

WilmerHale

Tiffany J. Smith is a partner at WilmerHale and Co-Chair of the firm's Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Working Group, advising broker-dealers, financial institutions, crypto platforms, NFT issuers and platforms, Web3 companies, payment platforms and investment firms. Her work covers crypto and digital asset regulation, fintech and broker-dealer regulation. She served as a witness at a House Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence hearing on crypto market structure. She holds a J.D. with honors from The George Washington University Law School and a BBA from The George Washington University, and is admitted in the District of Columbia and New York. At Legal Cyber Academy she teaches on blockchain and cryptocurrency fundamentals and SEC cryptocurrency enforcement.

Eric Rosen

Founding Partner, Dynamis LLP

Dynamis LLP

Eric Rosen is a founding partner of Dynamis LLP, working from the firm's Boston and New York offices. He handles white collar criminal defense, corporate investigations, and complex civil litigation, with particular experience in money laundering, market manipulation, securities fraud and cryptocurrency matters. He spent nearly nine years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston and Pittsburgh and three years as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan; as a federal prosecutor he was the lead prosecutor in the Operation Varsity Blues college admissions case. He clerked for Judge Robert P. Patterson, Jr. of the Southern District of New York, holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and a B.A. cum laude from Harvard College, and is ranked in Chambers USA. At Legal Cyber Academy he teaches on SEC cryptocurrency enforcement.