TechREG Chronicle

Dear Readers,   This edition of the TechREG Chronicle turns to tokenization — the linking of real-world value to instruments that live on distributed ledgers. A year after the GENIUS...

The GENIUS Act prohibits yield-bearing payment stablecoins prompting efforts at structural innovation designed to preserve the economic appeal of yield and yet remaining within the regulatory perimeter. A recent concept...

Tokenized products increasingly present the economic indicia of an investment in a legal form that may sit outside the traditional securities perimeter. This article examines the gap between what a...

Behind crypto-assets often lies a misleading narrative that sets them against traditional finance, seen as more transparent and reliable. However, the real change taking place in financial markets is broader...

In this article, the author argues that within five years tokenization will have advanced far enough that "tokenized assets" will simply be known as assets. He sets out the eight...

Tokenization of real-world assets has shown great utility and potential. But tokenization needs to be effected through a structure that is workable under private commercial law.  That law is largely...

Dear Readers,   Privacy has long been treated as a matter of individual rights and compliance obligations. Yet as digital markets mature, debates over privacy increasingly intersect with questions of...

Data – in particular our data – is what makes the world go round, both so far as state and non-state actors are concerned. There is growing unease about the...

Modern AI systems infer underlying traits, combine signals across contexts, and generate outputs that can affect prices, rankings, access, and treatment in ways that are difficult to foresee at the...

This article examines one of the most contested areas of modern data breach litigation: claims based on an alleged risk of future economic harm. The authors assess both the legal...

This article challenges the conventional view that privacy debates are primarily about limiting firms' access to consumer data. Instead, the author argues that the economic significance of personal information lies...

Consumer behavior evidence plays an increasingly important role in privacy litigation and regulatory proceedings, where courts and agencies are often asked to draw conclusions from consumers’ interactions with digital products,...