In the Press

2026

Declan Harty and Jasper Goodman, “Crypto’s other conflict of interest problem,” Morning Money, Politico, September 10, 2026
Nick Schwellenbach and Jay Hunter, “No SEC Probe of Trump Crypto Deal Despite Alleged ‘Illegality,’” Project On Government Oversight, August 25, 2026
Thomas B. Edsall, “‘A Blatant and Gargantuan Conflict of Interest,’” The New York Times, August 18, 2026
Jean Chemnick, “What the SEC climate repeal means to investors,” E&E News by Politico, June 29, 2026
Kyle Torpey, “Trump’s World Liberty to Get Legal Cover From New Crypto Law, Influential Expert Says,” Gizmodo, May 11, 2026
Ian Allison, “Iran’s crypto tanker tolls are the latest step in its sanctions-busting trade network,” CoinDesk, April 9, 2026
“How stablecoins could grow to $1.45 trillion in the next decade,” CNBC, August 5, 2026
Eric Lipton and David Yaffe-Bellany, “Crypto Brought Trump a Huge Windfall, Even as Many Investors Lost Big,” The New York Times, July 1, 2026
Glenn Derene, “Why Cryptocurrencies Are Still Controversial,” Consumer Reports, July 1, 2026
“Cutting Out the Middleman: The Surge in FinTech Applications to Charter Banks, Industrial Banks, National Trust Companies,” Ballard Spahr Consumer Financial Services webinar, May 19, 2026
Abdelaziz Fathi, “Duke Says Trump’s WLFI Token May Be an Unregistered Security,” FinanceFeeds, May 9, 2026
“Duke law lecturer argues Trump-connected World Liberty Financial issued a security,” The Block, May 8, 2026
David Krause, “Regulatory Attempts To Ban Stablecoin Yields Cannot Compete With Economics,” ProMarket, March 11, 2026
Glenn Derene, “What Are Cryptocurrencies and Why Should You Care?” Consumer Reports, February 24, 2026
David Yaffe-Bellany, “Binance Gives Trump Family’s Crypto Firm a Leg Up,” The New York Times, February 7, 2026
Ian Allison, “Crypto’s eligibility for 401k retirement funds is under fire after brutal market rout wipes out $2 trillion,” CoinDesk, February 6, 2026
Claire Williams, “How crypto legislation has banks playing Whac-A-Mole,” American Banker, January 29, 2026

2025

Olga Kharif and Annie Massa,“Binance Weighs US Strategy as Billionaire Zhao Regains Clout,” Bloomberg, December 17, 2025
Eden Harris, “OCC eases the path for banks in crypto,” The Banker, December 12, 2025
Liam Kelly, “Market structure bill risks creating an ‘illicit finance superhighway’ for DeFi, warns expert,” DLNews, September 22, 2025
Whitney Curry Wimbish, “Down and Out on the Crypto Frontier,” The American Prospect, September 22, 2025
Alexander Osipovich, Vicky Ge Huang, and Amrith Ramkumar, “The Bitcoin-Billionaire Winklevoss Brothers Flex Their Influence in Washington,” WSJ, September 18, 2025
Liam Kelly, “Trump’s $4.1bn WLFI windfall throws coming crypto regulation into doubt,” DLNews, September 4, 2025
Liam Kelly, “Crypto law bonanza raises concerns around whether agency staff can regulate groundswell,” DLNews, August 12, 2025
Joe Light, “Everyone Is Along for the Crypto Ride Now, Even if It Ends Badly,” Barron’s, August 7, 2025
“The risks and rewards of tokenization as crypto heavyweights push for it,” KSAT, July 21, 2025
Matt Levin, “Bill that would allow banks to issue “stablecoin” cryptocurrency takes a step closer to becoming law,” Marketplace, May 20, 2025
Brady Dale, “SEC crypto roundtable begins work of regulatory overhaul,” Axios, March 21, 2025
Alexander Osipovich, Vicky Ge Huang, Amrith Ramkumar, “The Polarizing Crypto Executive Who Wooed His Way Into Trump’s Orbit,” WSJ, March 6, 2025
David Yaffe-Bellany and Joe Rennison, “More Companies Are Betting on Bitcoin,” The New York Times, January 8, 2025

2024

“Crypto’s future: Stable investment or risk gamble,” WHYY, December 12, 2024
Monique Mulima, “Trump’s Pick for SEC Chair Blamed the US for FTX Crypto Disaster,” Bloomberg, December 10, 2024
Seana Smith, “Crypto needs ‘sensible’ regulation regardless of who’s elected,” yahoo!finance, October 15, 2024
Emily Mason, “Wyoming’s Stablecoin Plan Is Latest Crypto Push by Cowboy State,” Bloomberg, September 18, 2024
Joseph Zeballos-Roig, “Mark Cuban is Kamala Harris’ on-call billionaire. What’s he after?” Semafor, September 6, 2024
Joseph Zeballos-Roig, “From crackdown to comeback: Crypto’s fortunes turn in Washington,” Semafor, July 29, 2024
Matt Levin, “Republicans are Embracing Crypto,” Marketplace, July 17, 2024
Emily Graffeo and Lydia Beyoud, “US Paves Way for Ether ETFs in Test of Crypto Demand Beyond Bitcoin,” Bloomberg, May 24, 2024
Declan Harty, “Crypto billionaire Zhao sentenced to 4 months in prison,” Politico, April 30, 2024
Matt Levin, “Bitcoin devotees are rejoicing after the latest crypto thaw,” Marketplace, March 1, 2024
David Gura, “Will Bitcoin ETFs lead to crypto becoming more common in investment portfolios?” NPR, February 6, 2024
Alexander Osipovich, “Wall Street Gets Laser Eyes in Bid for Bitcoin ETF Bucks,” Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2024

2023

Dave Michaels, “Binance Copped a $4 Billion Plea but Is Still Fighting the SEC,” Wall Street Journal, December 4, 2023
Leo Schwartz and Jeff John Roberts, “Gary Gensler has remade the SEC into a crypto nemesis and climate warrior. Now a backlash is brewing,” Fortune, November 28, 2023
Thomas Barrabi, “Customers outraged over Winklevoss twins’ secret $282M crypto withdrawal: ‘You didn’t tell anyone,’” NY Post, October 17, 2023
Kevin Penton, “Sullivan & Cromwell, Fenwick Draw Scrutiny In FTX Debacle,” LAW360, October 3, 2023
Declan Harty, Eleanor Mueller, Sam Sutton and Jasper Goodman, “How SBF’s fall keeps rattling Capitol Hill,” Politico, October 3, 2023
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni, “Crypto’s Trial of the Century Is Set to Begin,” NYT, October 2, 2023
Brooke Masters and Scott Chipolina, “Crypto vs SEC: What Grayscale’s court victory means for bitcoin ETFs,” Financial Times, August 30, 2023
Dave Michaels and Paul Kiernan, “SEC’s Strategy for Regulating Crypto Stumbles in Ripple Case,” Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2023
Claire Williams, “BNY Mellon crypto custody application didn’t anticipate SEC accounting rule,” American Banker, June 28, 2023
Edd Gent, “U.S. SEC Puts Cryptocurrencies’ Futures in Crosshairs,” IEEE Spectrum, June 14, 2023
Joseph Zeballos-Roig, “Congress may be done with crypto,” SEMAFOR, June 7, 2023
Michael Martin and David Gura, “The SEC unveils 13 charges in a lawsuit against crypto exchange Binance,” NPR, June 6, 2023
Lily Jamali, “Climate change is high on the agenda as the World Bank gets a new president,” Marketplace, May 2, 2023
Michelle Celarier, “Is the Bitcoin Comeback for Real?” Institutional Investor, April 24, 2023
Russ Bowen, “NC State Treasurer weighs in on First Citizens buying Silicon Valley Bank,” March 27, 2023
Matt Levin, “Who are bank examiners, and what do they do?” Marketplace, March 24, 2023
Leo Schwartz, “Is Operation Chokepoint real? A crypto skeptic weighs in,” Fortune, March 22, 2023
David Yaffe-Bellany and Erin Griffith, “Crypto Wants it Shine Back,” The New York Times, March 20, 2023
Joe Light, “Struggling Silvergate Bank Held Reserves for Major Stablecoins, Raising Investor Protection Questions,” Barron’s, March 4, 2023

2022

Lily Jamali, “Can crypto restore its credibility?” Marketplace, December 13, 2022
Joseph Zeballos-Roig, “A Republican joins the crypto backlash in Congress,” December 2, 2022
Sharon Thiruchelvam, “FTX failure resets US crypto legislative programme,” Risk.net, November 29, 2022
Molly Fischer, “Yam Karkai’s Illustrations Made Her an N.F.T. Sensation. Now What?,” November 28, 2022
Joseph Zeballos-Roig, “Capitol Hill finally wants to regulate crypto. But some critics say just ‘let it burn.’” Semafor, November 23, 2022
Maxwell Strachan, “How SBF Created the New Playbook for Manipulating Washington, D.C.”, Vice, November 22, 2022
David Yaffe-Bellany, “Inside a Crypto Nemesis’ Campaign to Rein In the Industry,” New York Times, November 21, 2022
Ephrat Livini, “What is Next for the FTX Fallout,” Dealbook, November 20, 2022
Hannah Albarazi, “Would Rules Have Cured FTX’s ‘Internal Controls Wastleand’?” Law360, November 18, 2022
Matt Levin, “FTX debacle worsens crypto’s trust issues,” Marketplace, November 18, 2022
Sarah Wynn, FTX failure may strengthen case for more robust crypto regulation, Roll Call, November 15, 2022
Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Crypto faces a crisis of confidence amid FTX collapse, The Hill, November 11, 2022
Jeff Ostrowski, FTX Turmoil Undermines Miami’s Crypto Strategy, Commercial Observer, November 10, 2022
David Yaffe-Bellany, “Binance Pulls Out of Deal to Acquire Rival Crypto Exchange FTX,” November 9, 2022
Joe Light, “Face-Off Between Crypto Billionaires Is the Market’s Biggest Near-Term Risk,” Barron’s, November 9
David Gura, “Cryptocurrency exchange FTX files for bankruptcy,” NPR, November 11, 2022
Lily Jamali, “Crypto exchange Binance walks away from FTX deal,” Marketplace, November 9, 2022
“Legal Explainer: Regulators face unique hurdles in FTX probes,” Reuters Video, November 14, 2022
Matt Levin, “What Message is the SEC sending about celebrity crypto endorsements with Kim Kardashian fine?” Marketplace, October 4, 2022
Sarah Wynn, “GOP midterm victory would add pressure on fintech regulators,” Roll Call, October 4, 2022
Sarah Emerson, David Jeans, & Phoebe Liu, “Crypto Darling Helium Promised A ‘People’s Network.’ Instead, Its Executives Got Rich.” Forbes, September 23, 2022
David Dayen, “Battle Royale for Crypto Oversight Kicks Off,” The American Prospect, September 15, 2022
Lily Jamali, “With “the merge,” Ethereum tries to set a greener example for crypto,” Marketplace, September 15, 2022
Kharishar Kahfi, “The world’s securities law watchdog is scrambling to create ‘common standards’ for crypto,” The Block, September 3, 2022
Cynthia Littleton, “A Crypto Skeptic Takes on Web3: ‘There’s No Real-World-Use Case’ for Cryptocurrencies,” Variety, August 17, 2022
Ben Margulies, “Fed announces new guidelines after master account controversy,” Central Banking, August 16, 2022
Sarah Wynn, “’Securities’ label in SEC insider case may have broad crypto impact,” Roll Call, August 2, 2022
Katy Pickens, “Law professor tells Steamboat audience crypto not worth the hype,” Steamboat Pilot & Today, July 26, 2022
Julia Gerstein, “Will Current Geopolitical Crisis Influence Crypto Market?” Coinspeaker, July 11, 2022
Michael Bologna, “Crypto Crash Weighs on States’ Plans for Tax Payment by Bitcoin,” Bloomberg, July 5, 2022
Tory Newmyer, “Bill to grant crypto firms access to Federal Reserve alarms experts,” The Washington Post, July 3, 2022
Kristine Liao, “Crypto companies are getting into carbon credits. But can they actually help the climate?” Popular Science, June 27, 2022
Rebecca Heilweil, “Now might be a good time to think about crypto insurance,” Vox, June 17, 2022
Lauren Foster, “Proposed Legislation Promises to Empower Investors. What to Know.” Barron’s, June 14, 2022
David Yaffe-Bellany and Erin Griffith, “‘The Music Has Stopped’: Crypto Firms Quake as Prices Fall,” June 14, 2022
Scott Nover, “Why crypto lender Celsius Network halted withdrawals,” June 13, 2022
Lauren Foster, “How ‘Greenwashing’ Cost a CEO His Job,” Barron’s, June 2, 2022
David Yaffe-Bellany, “A Crypto Emperor’s Vision: No Pants, His Rules,” New York Times, May 14, 2022
Lily Jamali, “Crypto asset meltdown prompt calls for regulation,” Marketplace, May 13, 2022
Elise Hansen, “Crypto Meltdown Could Speed Stablecoin Regulations,” LAW360, May 13, 2022
Katrina Northrop, “Born to Run: After capitalizing on China’s crypto boom, Binance CEO “CZ” fled China just in the nick of time – and he’s been running ever since,” The Wire China, May 8, 2022
Chris Sommerfeldt, “Mayor Adams suggests scrapping longstanding N.Y. cryptocurrency licensing rule,” New York Daily News, April 27, 2022
Jacob Kozhipatt, “Experts Debate What Elon Musk’s Twitter Acquisition Means for Dogecoin,” Business Insider, April 27, 2022
Charlie Dunlap, “The National Security Challenges of Ransomware and Cryptocurrency,” Lawfire (Podcast), April 4, 2022
Corbin Hiar, “Fidelity sparks climate concern by using crypto in 401(k),” E&E News, April 28, 2022
Carolina Bolado, “Crypto Industry Can’t Count on Congress, At Least Not Yet,” Law360, April 26, 2022
Matt Levin, “What are stablecoins, and why are regulators worried about them?” Marketplace, April 18, 2022
Eric Lipton and David Yaffe-Bellany, “Crypto Industry Helps Write, and Pass, Its Own Agenda in State Capitols,” New York Times, April 10, 2022
David Gura, “Encore: The SEC wants companies to disclose how climate change is affecting them,” NPR, March 30, 2022
Corbin Hiar, “Michael Brune’s next battle: Clean up bitcoin,” E&E News, March 29, 2022
Lily Jamali, “Proposed bitoin ETFs spotlight debate over rules governing crypto,” Marketplace, March 22, 2022
David Gura, “The SEC wants companies to disclose how climate change is affecting them,” NPR, March 21, 2022
Claire Williams, “A big bank is in trouble, and no one knows which one or why,” America Banker, March 10. 2022
Paul Kiernan and Andrew Duehren, “Bitcoin Price Surges on Biden’s Crypto Executive Order,” Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2022
Lily Jamali, “Donations fortify Ukraine’s defense spending,” Marketplace, March 9, 2022
Corbin Hiar, “Tesla fights shareholder push to ditch carbo-rich crypto,” E&E News, March 8, 2022
David Dayen, “The Real Reasons Republicans Are Blocking Biden’s Fed Nominees,” The American Prospect, March 3, 2022
Nitasha Tiku and Jeremy B. Merrill, “Ukraine asked for donations in crypto. The things got weird,” Washington Post, March 3, 2022
Matt Levin, “As the ruble tumbles, cryptocurrency attracts ordinary Russians, oligarchs, maybe even the state itself,” Marketplace, March 1, 2022
Joseph A. Smith, “A Practitioner’s View on the Value of Team-Based, Student-Powered Interdisciplinary Research,” Methodspace, February 2022
Charlie Dunlap, “Lee Reiners on “Russian Sanctions will Compel Further Adoption of Cryptocurrency and Increase Compliance Risks for Cryptocurrency Companies,” Lawfire, February 28, 2022
Elliot Wilson, “Can the Cowboy State sell crypto to the Fed?” February 25, 2022
Ben Sessoms, “Crypto miner power draw raises environmental concerns,” Carolina Public Press, February 25, 2022
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jason Karaian, Sarah Kessler, Stephen Gandel, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni “Wall Street Bumps Pay to Stem a Talent Exodus,” New York Times, February 9, 2022

2021

Chad Day, “Only Two Senators Own Crypto Assets. Both Are shaping the Industry’s Rule,” Wall Street Journal, December 20, 2021
Sharon Thiruchelvam, “New Fed regulation head unlikely to roll back all Trump changes,” Risk.net, December 3, 2021
“Here’s what’s on the horizon for crypto regulation,” CNBC Crypto Night in America, November 24, 2021
Matt Ott, “Shiba Inu passes Dogecoin as top “dog” in cryptocurrency,” ABCNews, November 1, 2021
Andrew Singer, “Cypto lending firms on the hot seat: New regulations are coming?” Cointelegraph, October 29, 2021
Andy Blye, “Shifting Sands,” Phoenix Business Journal, October 29, 2021
Edd Gent, “Why is Facebook Getting Into Cryptocurrency?” IEEE Spectrum, September 30, 2021
Peter Feltman, “SEC seen having clear case against Coinbase’s lending program,” Roll Call, September 28, 2021
Elizabeth Weise, “Climate change is ‘a freight train’ making some places too dangerous to live in, experts say,” USA Today, September 28, 2021
“Biden administration set to ban crypto for ransomware payments,” CNBC The Exchange, September 17, 2021
Cristiano Lima, “Facebook’s latest attempt to build a crypto empire meets familiar skepticism in Washington,” Washington Post, September 8, 2021
Eric Lipton and Ephrat Livini, “Crypto’s Rapid Move Into Banking Elicits Alarm in Washington,” New York Times, September 5, 2021
Roger Parloff, “Portrait of a 29-year-old billionaire: Can Sam Bankman-Fried make his risky crypto business work?” Yahoo! Finance, August 12, 2021
Dave Michaels and Alexander Osipovich, “SEC Chief Gary Gensler Braces for Clash With Crypto Traders,” Wall Street Journal, August 5, 2021
Maria Aspan, “How Caitlin Long turned Wyoming into crypto country,” Fortune, July 29, 2021
Neil Haggerty, “Why SEC’s climate disclosure rules could hit banks hardest,” American Banker, July 2, 2021
Elena Botella, “Wyoming Wants to Be the Crypto Capital of the U.S.,” Slate, June 28, 2021
Sophie Quinton, “Relaxed Rules Attract Entrepreneurs to State ‘Sandboxes’,” PEW, June 15, 2021
Andrea Vittorio and Jake Holland, “Meat Producer’s Hack Ups Pressure to Regulate Crypto Payments,” Bloomberg Law, June 3, 2021
Brendan Pedersen and Hannah Lang, “Will FDIC, OCC follow Fed into global climate group?” American Banker, May 18, 2021
Terrence Fraser, “Amazon doesn’t take Dogecoin as payment on its site,” AP News, May 6, 2021
Alexander Osipovich, “This Vegan Billionaire Disrupted the Crypto Markets. Stocks May be Next,” Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2021
Danica Coto, “Eastern Caribbean Dollar Goes Digital, A Help for the Unbanked,” Business Journal, April 8, 2021
Claire Williams, “FSOC Takes the First Step to Regulate Hedge Funds by Forming a Working Group. What’s Next?” Morning Consult, March 31, 2021
Catherine Boudreau, “When companies go green, the planet doesn’t always win,” Politico, March 30, 2021
Ashley Daley, “Who protects landlords? Eviction moratorium extended through June,” WCNC, March 29, 2021
Andrew Singer, “Bitcoin ETF may come to US, but not all crypto investors think it’s needed,” Cointelegraph, March 5, 2021
Chris Mathews, “Progressive hopes for a radical SEC agenda face a unicorn problem,” MarketWatch, February 26, 2021
Avery Ellfeldt, “SEC to toughen climate rules on companies,” E&E News, February 25, 2021
Matt Ott, “Cost of a single bitcoin exceeds $50,000 for the first time,” AP News, February 16, 2021
Peter Feltman, “Fintech experts divided on form for U.S. central digital currency,” Roll Call, October 27, 2021

2020

Jon Hill, “Barrett May Reinforce High Court Trends For Banking Industry,” Law 360, September 29, 2020
Avery Ellfeldt, “This watchdog wants to ‘demystify’ America’s COVID-19 bailout,” E&E News, August 24, 2020
Andrew Singer, “WisdomTree Tests SEC’s Bitcoin Acceptance Threshold With Latest ETF Filing,” Cointelegraph, June 20, 2020
Peter Feltmen, “Optimism abounds on cryptocurrency ETFs despite lack of action,” Roll Call, June 9, 2020
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Comment for Federal Advisory Committees and Subcommittees 85 FR 21840, May 9, 2020
Duke Today Staff, “Lee Reiners: Who Are Your Trusted Sources on COVID-19?” Duke Today, May 7, 2020
Duke Law Staff, “Reiners, Lawrence JD/LLM ’21, and others from Duke Law contribute to Bass Connections analysis of predatory lending,” Duke Law: News, May 8, 2020
Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions Staff, “Seven Duke Research Projects Receive Catalyst Program Grants for 2020–2021,” Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions: News, May 5, 2020

2019

Brendan Pedersen, “Does Amazon-Google-Microsoft hold on the cloud pose a risk to banking?” American Banker, September 30, 2019
Dave Michaels and Alexander Osipovich, “Venture-Capital Stalwart Battles Washington’s Crypto Crackdown,” The Wall Street Journal, September 1, 2019
Kristen Haunss, “Leveraged lending risk to be discussed at Congressional hearing Tuesday,” Reuters, June 3, 2019
Kristen Haunss, “Regulatory crackdown unlikely in US leveraged loan market,” Reuters, March 15, 2019

2018

Colin Colter, “Once Used for Natural Disasters, Resilience Theory Informs Financial Regulation Debate,” Duke Today, April 3, 2018
Robert Schmidt and Benjamin Bain, “Who Wants to Be Bitcoin’s Watchdog?” Bloomberg Businessweek, January 12, 2018
Max Diamond, “BitConnect, a cryptocurrency trader, ordered to stop operating in NC,” The Raleigh News & Observer, January 11, 2018

2016

Ronald Orol, “How Trump’s Win May Provide a Windfall for Bailed-Out Insurer AIG,” The Street, November 14, 2016