Last year, NFTs were everywhere and IP lawyers across the country were grappling to understand their potential impact on IP rights. This...

It is a good time to check in on the financial regulation lawyer in your life, following a deluge of regulatory updates as the UK sails...

All bets are off for the cryptoasset (‘crypto’) industry following publication of the House of Common’s Treasury Committee report on...

February this year saw the Bank of England and HM Treasury declare that it is “likely” that a digital pound will be issued in future and...

As the world continues to be fixated with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, the High Court has recently found that copyright does not...

How far would you go to get your hands on billions of pounds worth of cryptocurrency?  Dr Craig White, who also claims to be Satoshi...

In a significant step, the Bank of England and HM Treasury have declared that it is "likely" that a digital pound—the catchy moniker for...

Back at the very beginning of 2020 Covid-19 still hadn't been designated a pandemic, Brexit still wasn't quite 'done' and you could start...

The ICO is encouraging developers to consider privacy at an early stage when implementing new technologies and, in its first annual...

On 15 September 2022 the long-awaited transition to a 'proof-of-stake' consensus mechanism on Ethereum—referred to as 'The Merge'—finally...

On Monday 8 August the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned virtual currency mixer Tornado...

Ever since Facebook rebranded as “Meta”, everyone has been talking about the Metaverse. But what exactly is it (or could it be) and what...

Last week, the UK Law Commission (the "Commission") published its much anticipated advice to the Government on the application of the...

Do cryptoassets pose a risk to the stability of the UK's financial system? In a speech published on 13 October, Sir Jon Cunliffe, Deputy...

Recent months have seen an explosion in the popularity (and value) of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).  An NFT is a unique (non-fungible)...

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) recently published a short whitepaper on distributed ledger technology (DLT) to help...