Over the past year, crypto legal strategy has shifted from defensive positioning to proactive engagement with regulators, product teams, and market structure policy. In a recent episode of Block & Order, Kraken Chief...
The Block & Order Brief: Audits, State Power, Market Infrastructure, and January’s Signals of Maturity
Feb 06, 2026
By: Moish E. Peltz, Esq. and Kyle M. Lawrence, Esq. January underscored a quiet but consequential shift in the digital asset industry. Across recent Block & Order conversations and the January Weekly Dockets, the message...
By: Moish E. Peltz, Esq. and Kyle M. Lawrence, Esq. When Steven Baum joined Block & Order, he made a counterintuitive observation about digital assets: crypto is not hard to audit because it is opaque. In many cases, it...
Tokenization: The Most Anticipated, and Perhaps the Most Misunderstood, New Technology of the Decade
Feb 05, 2026
By: Kyle M. Lawrence, Esq. and Moish E. Peltz, Esq. In the early days of 2026, you can’t open your internet browser, check the news or talk to a neighbor without hearing the word tokenization. To some, it’s the dawn of a...
Stablecoins and the Path to Legitimacy: Carlo D’Angelo on Regulation, Banks, and the FDIC’s First GENIUS Act Rule
Jan 29, 2026
By: Moish E. Peltz, Esq. and Kyle M. Lawrence, Esq. When Carlo D’Angelo joined Block & Order, he spoke with unusual confidence about where stablecoins were headed in the United States. At a time when much of crypto...
The Valuation Hurdles of Token Grants and Cross-Border Transfers? Lessons from Neil Thakur of Teknos Associates
Dec 05, 2025
By: Moish E. Peltz, Esq. and Kyle M. Lawrence, Esq. As tokenization models mature and crypto businesses confront new tax and reporting rules, valuation has become one of the most consequential issues for founders, investors,...
By: Moish E. Peltz, Esq. and Kyle M. Lawrence, Esq. When SEC Chair Paul Atkins and Acting CFTC Chair Caroline Pham issued their joint statement on “regulatory harmonization,” it marked one of the clearest signs yet that...
Onshore Optimism, Offshore Reality: Why Token Projects Still Aren’t Launching in the U.S.
Nov 12, 2025
By: Moish E. Peltz, Esq. and Kyle M. Lawrence, Esq. After years of lobbying for clearer crypto policy, the U.S. industry finally got what it asked for — or at least, the beginnings of it. Between the passage of the GENIUS...
FRB’s Moish E. Peltz Featured on the International Trademark Association’s Brand & New Podcast
Oct 28, 2025
FRB’s Moish Peltz, Co-Managing Partner, Chair of the Intellectual Property Practice Group, and Co-Chair of the Digital Assets Practice Group, recently joined Willard Knox for the International Trademark Association’s...
TTAB Decision on WORLDWIDECRYPTO Provides an Instructive Reminder for Crypto Trademark Applicants
Oct 23, 2025
By: Moish E. Peltz, Esq. A Crypto Trademark Case Worth Noting A recent decision from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) offers an important reminder for companies and entrepreneurs in the digital asset and...










