Davis Polk partners Robert Cohen and Fiona Moran and associate Abigail Cooper authored “A decade in review: SEC cryptocurrency enforcement – Where we have been and where we are going after FTX” in PLI Chronicle. The article discusses the SEC’s enforcement-first approach to crypto, focusing on settled enforcement actions, some litigation, and limited rulemaking or formal guidance, as well as the expectation that the fallout of FTX will be a continued, and possibly even stronger, enforcement-first approach by the SEC, with less interest in the traditional regulatory approach of coupling industry growth with investor protection.

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