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As an global association of more than 1,000 participants in markets, the The International Swaps and Derivatives Association is influential and when it issues material it carries weight outside its own area of concern. So when it has published The ISDA Digital Asset Derivatives Definitions. It makes sense to pay attention, even if you aren't in swaps or derivatives.

John Ho discusses the Regulation on Markets in Crypto-Assets or MiCA.

One would have thought that Initial Coin Offerings had been a flash in the pan and already out of fashion. And that may, to a point, be so: their heyday was, of course, three or four years ago.

But the essential problem seems to be that things take a while to filter through so that, when stories reactivate interest, everything old becomes new again, to coin a phrase. So the news that a case relating to conduct in 2017 and 2018 may be the spark that reignites burning embers as some people remember the concept of the ICO and think "that might be a way to help my business that's struggling through the CoVid-19 Pandemic.