Blockchain Legal Resources

What is Blockchain/Web3/Crypto

• DLx's Blockchain Legal 101:  https://practiceguides.chambers.com/practice-guides/comparison/672/8991/14372-14377-14387-14393-14400-14406-14409-14413-14416-14419

• Collins Belton 101:  https://vimeo.com/721544135/7a5d6c8ce6

• Latham's Book of Jargon:  https://www.lw.com/en/book-of-jargon/boj-blockchaincryptoandweb3

• A16z Transcribed Podcast:  https://steno.ai/a16z-podcast/blockchains-crypto-web3-connections-models-more

• Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul:  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4105763

• Web1 to Web3: 

  • https://future.com/why-web3-matters/

  • https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/web2-vs-web3/

  • https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/evolution-internet-from-web10-web3-ravi-chamria

• Value Accrual Fat Protocols (USV/Joel Monegro):  https://www.usv.com/writing/2016/08/fat-protocols/

  • Follow up article:  https://www.placeholder.vc/blog/2020/1/30/thin-applications

  • Fatt App Thesis:  https://twitter.com/WestieCapital/status/1562079476837765120

  • Cracks in the Fat Protocol Theory:  https://messyproblems.substack.com/p/cracks-in-the-fat-protocol-theory

• Decentralization:

  • ​8 Steps:  https://medium.com/venture-dao/8-steps-to-decentralization-1822806e2d54

  • Marc Boiron:  https://variant.fund/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Sufficient-Decentralization-by-Marc-Boiron.docx.pdf

• Bitcoin White Paper:  https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf​

• Miles Jennings - Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models:  https://future.com/web3-decentralization-models-framework-principles-how-to/

• Gary Gensler's MIT Class on Blockchain:  https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/blockchain-and-money-a-free-online-course-from-mit.html

• Programming Learning Community:

  • ​https://rabbithole.gg/

  • https://buildspace.so/

  • https://www.kernel.community/en/

• 1st Amendment - Bitcoin is Free Speech (Justin S. Wales Richard J. Ovelmen):  https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4591&context=umlr

• 4th Amendment - Unreasonable Searches and Seizures / Privacy / Third Party Doctrine (Drew Hinkes Video):  https://vimeo.com/393699455 ​

• Developing Economies: A Proven Use Case for Crypto:  https://marketing.kaiko.com/developing-economies-a-proven-use-case-for-crypto

• DLX:  Decentralized finance: Ready for its “close-up”?:  https://dlxlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Decentralized-finance-Ready-for-its-Close-Up-GLI-DeFi-Article-2021.pdf

• Web 3 Formation Tools:

  • Otoco:  https://otoco.io/​

  • Otonomos:  https://otonomos.com/

NFTs

• What Is An NFT;  https://whiteboardcrypto.com/what-is-a-nft/

• Legal Consideration:  https://www.jonesday.com/en/insights/2021/04/nfts-key-us-legal-considerations-for-an-emerging-asset-class

• How to Value NFT Fundamentals: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-approach-nft-fundamentals

• Copyrights and NFTs:  https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/guest-post-copyright-nfts-of-digital.html

• How the DMCA Applies to NFTs:  https://www.skadden.com/-/media/files/publications/2022/05/how_the_dmca_applies_to_nfts.pdf

• Fractionalized NFTS (Securities Laws):

  • ​https://www.omm.com/resources/alerts-and-publications/alerts/howey-should-think-about-nfts-and-securities-laws/

• Wash Trading by Hildobby:  https://community.dune.com/blog/nft-wash-trading-on-ethereum​

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DAOs

• Primer on DAOs:

  • Fried Frank: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/09/17/a-primer-on-daos/​

  • Bestape.eth:  https://ape.mirror.xyz/IJKPA-ZBO74QzCNYNGxBBwBnxcSqv3irUodrWMigPdo

• How to Create a DAO: 

  • Blockchain Council Guide:  https://www.blockchain-council.org/dao/how-to-create-run-a-dao-a-comprehensive-guide/

  • Aragon (ex. of a DAO builder):  https://aragon.org/​

  • DAO Governance Documents: https://daostack.io/

• Legal Wrappers:

  • Fried Frank - A Primer on DAOs: https://www.friedfrank.com/siteFiles/Publications/FFTOCDAOArticle08172022.pdf

  • Paradigm - Legal Wrappers and DAOs:  https://www.paradigm.xyz/2022/06/dao-strategy-and-legal-wrappers

  • https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4123737

  • A16z - A Legal Framework for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations:  https://a16zcrypto.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/dao-legal-framework-part-1.pdf

  • Kali Dao (DAO Wrapper Tools): 

    • https://app.kali.gg/

    • https://github.com/kalidao/kali-legal/tree/main/formation

    • https://www.wrappr.wtf/

• Offshoring DAOs

  • https://dilendorf.com/resources/offshoring-dao-foundations-top-legal-considerations.html

  • Cayman

    • https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/a-foundation-for-fintech-4112917/

    • https://www.careyolsen.com/briefings/cayman-islands-foundation-companies-daos-defi-and-nfts

    • https://www.careyolsen.com/briefings/overview-cayman-islands-foundation-companies#:~:text=A%20foundation%20company%20is%20a,foundation%20or%20common%20law%20trust.

• SEC's Report of Investigation Pursuant to Section 21(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934: The DAO:  https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf​

• Lexpunk (DAO Legal Defense):  https://github.com/LeXpunK-Army/LeXpunK_DAO_Defense_Protocol/blob/main/Operator's%20Manual%20-%20LeXpunK%20Legal%20Defense%20Protocol.pdf

• Model Legislation for DAOs

  • COALA:  https://coala.global/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/DAO-Model-Law.pdf

    • Eaglelex Summary of COALA's Model Legislation:  https://banklessdao.mirror.xyz/nCRNjYBAxup4Ye0-k8BB_kNPCz7L1XI5l3XkiGWqx3Y​

  • Aaron Wright (states and regulators can adapt existing legal regimes for DAOs):  https://stanford-jblp.pubpub.org/pub/rise-of-daos/release/1

• Legal Dangers of Getting Involved in DAOs:  The legal dangers of getting involved with DAOs:  https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/legal-dangers-getting-involved-daos/​

• DAO Treasuries 101:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYTTLOKE6xo&ab_channel=Interaxis

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Tokens

• Securities: 

  • SEC Report (claiming offering of crypto assets were investment contracts -> securities):  https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf

  • Statute of Limitations:  https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2020/05/12/time-limitations-are-the-achilles-heel-of-cryptocurrency-securities-class-actions/?slreturn=20220723123037

  • Crypto Rating Council’s Securities Law Framework:  https://assets.website-files.com/5d766f847039d787f8a99a02/609998f89636a3f99c8429c6_CRC%20Securities%20Law%20Framework.pdf

  • Gabe Shapiro's Philosophy of Securities Laws for Tokenized Networks:  https://medium.com/sporos-dao/using-sweat-equity-to-motivate-talent-align-incentives-in-for-profit-daos-16bedb027a87

  • What is a Security

    • SEC Resources:

      • https://www.sec.gov/corpfin/framework-investment-contract-analysis-digital-assets

      • https://www.sec.gov/corpfin/pocketful-quarters-inc-072519-2a1

    • DLx Law's Guide:  https://docs.0x.org/developer-resources/0x-legal-guide

      • Summary by Jai Messari:   https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/12/06/why-cryptoassets-are-not-securities/​

    • Wahi Case - Analysis of Tokens:  https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dde9ca5fbd78f1f18ec6acb/t/62dae2295a0dd27c0c851740/1658511913938/Ishan+Case+%28crypto%29+IRP+Summary+7-22-22.pdf

    • SIFMA - When Is a Digital Asset a Security:  https://www.sifma.org/resources/news/when-is-a-digital-asset-a-security/

    • Reves Test (Latham):  https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/the-limits-of-applying-reves-v-ernst-5896777/

• Perpetual Futures:  https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/what-are-perpetual-futures-contracts

• Token Side Letters / Warrants:

  • ​https://www.liquifi.finance/post/crypto-web3-fundraising-with-token-side-letters-or-token-warrants

• SAFTS (Articles why these are tricky):

  • https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/is-there-life-for-safts-after-the-54728/

  • https://glaveski.medium.com/safts-token-warrants-what-they-are-and-how-they-work-9be323e0afed

• SAFT Legal Checklist:  https://www.buzko.legal/content-eng/saft-legal-checklist#read

• Token Warrant:

  • Explained:  https://www.magna.so/blog/fundraising-for-crypto-founders-the-token-warrant

• Token Issuance

  • SEC on ICOs:  https://www.sec.gov/ICO

  • Regulation S Offeirngs:  https://www.pillsburylaw.com/images/content/4/7/v2/476/RobbinsRegS2013.pdf

• Token Compensation Explained​ by Zack Skelly

  • ​https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/token-compensation-for-web3-startups-47621640a6ba

  • https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/the-comprehensive-guide-to-token-compensation-a3dd0b571c5d

• Toku Token Primer:  https://assets-global.website-files.com/654d1b8a7db50e93a158d79c/65ce1965a24198719c35ab3f_Toku%20Primer%20v3.pdf​

• Token Launches:

  • a16z's Token Launch Playbook: https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/p/the-token-launch-playbook-special?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=811657&post_id=144053850&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1pdkue&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

  • Compliant ICO in US:  ​https://dilendorf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/How-to-Launch-ICO-In-the-US-1.pdf

  • Reg S and Reg D Simultaneous Offerings: 

    • ​https://frostbrowntodd.com/two-offerings-one-token-simultaneous-rule-506c-and-reg-s-offerings-of-security-tokens/

    • https://medium.com/@jrlmaker/concurrent-reg-d-reg-s-icos-b847696a77db

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Smart Contracts

• Fiduciary Duty

  • Blockchain Development and Fiduciary Duty:  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3338270

  • In Code(rs) We Trust: Software Developers as Fiduciaries in Public Blockchains:  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3203198

  • ​Supplemental Rebuttal to Angela Walch’s Views on Software Devs as Fiduciaries:  https://lex-node.medium.com/supplemental-rebuttal-to-angela-walchs-views-on-software-devs-as-fiduciaries-f886f2b47ffd

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Policy

• US Crypto Policy Tracker:  https://cryptoforinnovation.org/us-crypto-policy-tracker/

• Cryptocurrency Regulation by Country 2022:  https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/04/Cryptos-Report-Compendium-2022.pdf

• Biden Adminitration's Crypto Reports: https://www.theblock.co/post/170770/here-are-all-of-the-biden-administrations-crypto-reports

• Base Layer Neutrality:  https://www.paradigm.xyz/2022/09/base-layer-neutrality

• Minimum Extractable Value (MEV) and Market Manipulation:  https://www.bis.org/publ/bisbull58.pdf

Compliance

• Overview

  • ​Summary of Regulatory Landscape in US:  https://docs.0x.org/developer-resources/0x-legal-guide

  • Cryptocurrency Laws and Regulations by State:  https://pro.bloomberglaw.com/brief/cryptocurrency-laws-and-regulations-by-state/#alabama

  • Comply Advantage - Cryptocurrency Regulations Around The World:  https://complyadvantage.com/insights/cryptocurrency-regulations-around-world/

• Financial

  • Money Services Business

    • MSB or Not MSB?:  https://www.wsgr.com/en/insights/msb-or-not-msb-that-is-the-question-for-determining-applicability-of-anti-money-laundering-rules.html

    • Law:  https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2011-07-21/pdf/2011-18309.pdf

    • Dapps Needing Money Transmitter Licenses - FinCEN:  https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2019/05/09/fincen-says-some-dapps-are-subject-to-us-money-transmitter-rules/

    • FinCEN Guidance on Virtual Currency:  https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/2019-05/FinCEN%20Guidance%20CVC%20FINAL%20508.pdf

  • Money Transmitter Licenses

    • General:  https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/money-transmitter-business-license-requirements#form

    • State Reqs:  https://kelman.law/insights/money-transmitter-licensing-for-u-s-crypto-companies/

    • Multistate MSB Licensing Agreement Program:  https://mortgage.nationwidelicensingsystem.org/slr/Pages/Multistate-MSB-Licensing-Agreement-Program.aspx

  • Financial Regulatory Structure:  https://i2.wp.com/a16z.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Regulators-1-scaled.jpg?ssl=1

  • Fin Tech Regulation Guide:  https://dashdevs.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-us-fintech-regulations/#:~:text=Even%20fintechs%20offering%20relatively%20simple,to%20operate%20in%20the%20US

  • ​Entity-based vs activity-based regulation: a framework and applications to traditional financial firms and big techs:  https://www.bis.org/fsi/fsipapers19.pdf

• Real World Asset Tokenization:

  • https://cointelegraph.com/news/real-world-assets-tokenization-lacks-infrastructure-not-just-regulation

  • https://research.binance.com/static/pdf/real-world-asset-report.pdf

  • https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/02/15/we-need-clearer-terminology-for-crypto-tokenization-coindesk/

  • https://blockworks.co/news/what-it-takes-to-tokenize-the-world

  • https://blog.amberdata.io/real-world-asset-rwa-tokenization-primer?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=301053313&utm_content=301053313&utm_source=hs_email

• Security Tokens

  • ​https://medium.com/stocheck/how-security-tokens-enable-fractional-ownership-4900862b6f0a

• AML/Money Laundering/BSA

  • Basics:  

    • https://cointelegraph.com/learn/what-is-kyc-and-why-do-crypto-exchanges-require-it

    • https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/aml.asp

    • https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/cryptocurrency-anti-money-laundering-enforcement-2022-09-26/

  • a16z Podcast:  https://web3-with-a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/crypto-regulations-sanctions-compliance-aml-z-news-explained-zYxe3PZ1?share=true

  • FATF

    • FATF Standards:  https://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/recommendations/pdfs/FATF%20Recommendations%202012.pdf

    • FATF Guidance on Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers:  https://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/recommendations/Updated-Guidance-VA-VASP.pdf

      • Updates for Virtual Assets (think international remittances):  https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2021/11/recent-developments-in-the-regulation-of-virtual-assets/fatf-updates-its-global-guidelines

      • Quick Guide:  https://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/recommendations/Quick-guide-RBA-VA-VASPS.pdf

      • How FATF Applies To MiCA in Europe:  https://cointelegraph.com/news/mica-and-tofr-the-eu-moves-to-regulate-the-crypto-asset-market

• Mixers / Compliance

  • https://www.winston.com/en/global-trade-and-foreign-policy-insights/ofac-sanctions-a-second-virtual-currency-mixer.html

• Gambling:

  • Overview of Gambling Laws:  https://definitions.uslegal.com/g/gambling/#:~:text=Gambling%20is%20accepting%2C%20recording%2C%20or,conduct%20an%20'illegal%20gambling%20business.

  • Skills v Chance:  https://www.firstamendment.com/skill-gaming-legal-guide/

  • The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and the Exemption for Fantasy Sports:  https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/jlas/article/download/22335/21895/33678

  • Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA):  https://www.fdic.gov/news/financial-institution-letters/2010/fil10035a.pdf

  • 10 Legal Issues with Fantasy Sports:  https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/insights/legal/practical-guidance-journal/b/pa/posts/10-legal-issues-with-fantasy-sports

  • White & Case - Wire act:  https://www.whitecase.com/insight-alert/first-circuit-rejects-dojs-expansive-view-wire-act

  • Contests v. Sweepstakes Laws:  https://gleam.io/blog/contest-laws-by-state/#:~:text=The%20main%20laws%20you%20need,where%20winners%20are%20randomly%20drawn.

• Compliance Policies

  • FCPA/Bribery: 

    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/website_production/comfy/cms/files/959/files/original/SAMPLE_template_anti-bribery_policy.pdf

    • https://www.nyu.edu/about/policies-guidelines-compliance/policies-and-guidelines/anti-bribery-and-corruption-policy.html

  •  AML:  https://www.finra.org/compliance-tools/anti-money-laundering-template-small-firms

  •  Compliance Checklist:  https://www.onetrust.com/resources/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20220926-OneTrust-AnnualCompliance-Checklist-A4-Digital.pdf

Sanctions

• OFAC / Strict Liability:  https://www.perkinscoie.com/en/news-insights/ofac-releases-new-detailed-guidance-for-the-digital-currency-industry.html#:~:text=Strict%20Liability.,prohibited%20transaction%2C%20even%20if%20inadvertently.

• OFAC / Mixers:

  • https://www.coincenter.org/analysis-what-is-and-what-is-not-a-sanctionable-entity-in-the-tornado-cash-case/

  • https://www.winston.com/en/global-trade-and-foreign-policy-insights/ofac-sanctions-a-second-virtual-currency-mixer.html 

Tax

• DeFi Tax:  https://www.pwc.com/us/en/tax-services/publications/insights/assets/pwc-demystifying-defi-tax.pdf

• Taxation of Block Rewards:  https://www.taxnotes.com/featured-analysis/law-policy-and-taxation-block-rewards/2022/06/03/7dhq5

• Taxation of Decentralized Finance:  https://www.friedfrank.com/uploads/siteFiles/Publications/Schwartz%20%2802-07-2022%29.pdf

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Viewpoints on Regulation

• Regulating Front End (Larry Florio):  https://twitter.com/larryflorio/status/1588311868862771201?s=46&t=o2TcLVRtAUMmpDi41Vblhw

• Rebecca Rettig at Aave on Law of Code: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81ZTI4NzNkOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw/episode/NjBjODM4NDAtYTQwZC00ZjNlLTg4NGItZDE1YTliYjRlMzM0?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwiLlqLyyp_7AhWvkYkEHUdbAnIQjrkEegQIDBAF&ep=6

• Erik Voorhees - Fundamentals of Crypto Regulation:  https://www.moneyandstate.com/blog/response-to-sbf

• Miles Jennings - Regulate Web3 Apps, Not Protocols: https://a16zcrypto.com/web3-regulation-apps-not-protocols/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

• On Gary Gensler, and Registration and Disclosure:  https://lexdao.substack.com/p/on-gary-gensler-andregistration-and?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=85035&post_id=77863160&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

• Blockchain Association on Stablecoins:  https://theblockchainassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Letter-to-Congress-on-Stablecoin-Legislation.pdf

• Polygon Principles on Regulation:  https://github.com/policy-at-polygon/Policy-Principles/blob/main/%5BFINAL%20for%20GH%5D%20Polygon%20Policy%20Principles%20(1).pdf

  • Rebecca Rettig Tweet;  https://twitter.com/RebeccaRettig1/status/1633816987880095744​

• ​Coinbase's Paul Agrewal on Staking not a Security:  https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbases-staking-services-are-not-securities-and-heres-why

• Proof of Stake Alliance on U.S. Federal Securities and Commodity Law Analysis of Liquid Staking Receipt Tokens:  https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62f147feb8108a08e666aea5/t/63f41766f6095b07bec7d1e8/1676941158721/U.S.+Federal+Securities+and+Commodity+Law+Analysis+of+Liquid+Staking+Receipt+Tokens+%28Willkie+Draft+02.14.23%29.pdf

• Proof of Stake Alliance on U.S. Federal Income Tax Analysis of Liquid Staking:  https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62f147feb8108a08e666aea5/t/63f3fd27f0b0fc45f7d906c2/1676934439845/U.S._Federal_Income_Tax_Analysis_of_Liquid_Staking.pdf

• Coin Center:  Is the Bank Secrecy Act unconstitutional?:  https://www.coincenter.org/its-time-to-have-the-conversation-is-the-bank-secrecy-act-unconstitutional/

Bankruptcy

• Congressional Research Service - Crypto Assets and Property of the Bankruptcy Estate: An Analysis:  https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10832

• Crypto-Assets Under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code:  https://news.law.fordham.edu/jcfl/2020/10/25/crypto-assets-under-the-insolvency-and-bankruptcy-code/

• Shearman & Sterling: Cryptoassets & Insolvency:  https://sites-shearman.vuturevx.com/27/3956/uploads/shearman-and-sterling---crypto-and-insolvency---2022.pdf

• Adam Levitin: Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins: Unpriced Credit Risk in Cryptocurrency:  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4107019

• Potential preference exposure for withdrawing crypto:  https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/potential-preference-exposure-withdrawing-crypto-2022-08-16/

• Crypto Customers Don’t Own Their Deposits:  https://www.abi.org/newsroom/daily-wire/crypto-customers-don%E2%80%99t-own-their-deposits-with-celsius-network-judge-glenn-says

• Proskauer: Cryptocurrency Assets in Bankruptcy:  https://www.blockchainandthelaw.com/2022/07/the-other-side-of-the-coin-cryptocurrency-assets-in-bankruptcy/#_ftn6

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Crypto VC Considerations

• Proxy Voting Rule:  https://www.sec.gov/investment/slb20-proxy-voting-responsibilities-investment-advisers

Random

• Attorney-Client Privilege with Metaverse:  https://lexdao.substack.com/p/5-guidelines-attorney-client-privilege-metaverse

• Curia Arbitration:  https://mirror.xyz/cattin.eth/WvxhuxLuZIObP2lXopL81_c9YD4j6-fQWVjgY3aKPHY

• Creating Cryptolaw for the Uniform Commercial Code by Carla Reyes:  https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlulr/vol78/iss4/7/

• UCC Article 9 on Secured Transactions:  https://www.hodgsonruss.com/media/publication/1758_UCC%20Article%209%20Secured%20Party%20Sales%20_w-008-7326_.pdf

• UCC Article 12 on Digital Assets:  https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/the-ucc-gets-a-digital-asset-refresh-2857883/

• Secured Transactions

  • How to Perfect and Attach:  https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-attach-perfect-security-interest-under-the-ucc.html

  • Negotiability:  http://web.nacm.org/pdfs/educ_presentations/Principles_Ch16_v3.pdf​

  • Is Bitcoin a Bearer Asset:  https://coinbits.app/blog/is-bitcoin-a-bearer-asset#:~:text=In%20practice%2C%20bitcoin%20functions%20like,the%20first%20of%20its%20kind.​

• A Repository on Crypto Legal Cases:  https://github.com/LeXpunK-Army/Crypto-CaseLaw

• Code Deference by Drew Hinkes:  https://jcl.law.uiowa.edu/sites/jcl.law.uiowa.edu/files/2021-08/Hinkes_Final_Web_0.pdf