Other Important Regulations

A few of the key legal frameworks that Crypto projects must consider include:

1. Securities laws including the Securities Act, Exchange Act,

2. The Commodity Exchange Act and its registration requirements, anti-fraud provisions, antimanipulative provisions, and commodity pool/commodity trading advisor requirements;

3. Investment Company Act

4. Investment Advisor Act, including their respective registration and disclosure requirements and market conduct and anti-fraud rules;

5. The Bank Secrecy Act

6. State Money Transmission laws and their respective know-your-customer and anti-money laundering requirements;

7. Payments and consumer finance regulation;

8. Federal sanctions and anti-terrorism regimes;

9. Other state licensing requirements such as New York’s BitLicense, to name a few