Understanding Digital Assets: A CLE Overview Featuring Blockchain.com CEO Lane Kasselman
Gray Reed LLP and the Texas Blockchain Council are excited to host this valuable Continuing Legal Education course. This CLE program offers a deep dive into the legal and regulatory developments surrounding digital assets and blockchain technology. Designed for legal practitioners, the session provides an overview of foundational concepts such as decentralized protocols, stablecoins, and tokenized assets, specifically focusing on their implications within the current legal framework as it relates to a crypto exchange.
The program will examine the intersection of digital assets and existing financial regulations, addressing the evolving oversight roles of political authorities. Participants will explore critical compliance considerations, emerging policy trends, and the legal challenges associated with advising clients in a rapidly shifting technological landscape.
The doors will open at 8am and we will begin programming promptly at 8:30am. We will also provide a light breakfast, for your convenience.
Learning Objectives:
Regulatory Landscape: Analyzing the current approach of primary regulatory bodies toward digital asset oversight.
Compliance and Risk: Reviewing the legal obligations and risk management strategies essential for practitioners in this space.
State and Federal Policy: Evaluating the impact of legislative developments on the digital asset infrastructure, with a particular focus on the evolving role of Texas.
Lane Kasselman is the Co-CEO and President at Blockchain.com, one of the world’s longest-operating and most trusted crypto platforms. Since joining the company, Lane has led its transformation from a startup unicorn into a fast-scaling multinational enterprise. He holds full strategic and financial accountability for the organization, overseeing global operations, partnerships, policy, and go-to-market strategy across a workforce of more than 500 employees on six continents. Under his leadership, Blockchain.com has achieved exponential growth in revenue and valuation, expanded its global footprint, and secured a leading position at the intersection of finance, technology, and policy.
Under Lane’s leadership, Blockchain.com has acquired and integrated seven businesses, among them a 200-person LATAM company that doubled Blockchain.com’s size. He also led the first-ever cryptocurrency partnership with an NFL team, the Dallas Cowboys, securing exclusive branding, advertising, and content rights that fueled organic user growth. He has embedded corporate structures, operational discipline, and culture that serve as the foundation for Blockchain.com’s sustainable and profitable growth.
Kasselman has spent over two decades consulting on business strategy, public policy, crisis strategy and communications for blue-chip companies, high-growth startups, political leaders and public figures. Previously, he ran communications and public affairs for The Messina Group and Uber in the Americas, where he helped pioneer lasting regulatory frameworks for ridesharing in key global markets. Earlier in his career, Kasselman served as the Director of Communications and Public Affairs for AT&T, where he built the national model for winning complex regulatory and land-use campaigns at the local level. From 2004-2007, he was Deputy Policy Director to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, now Governor of California. He later joined then-Senator Hillary Clinton’s Exploratory Committee for President as a communications advisor during the 2008 U.S. presidential election cycle.