#CryptoRoundTableRemarks After the financial crisis of 2008, a person or group known as Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper that describes a new peer-to-peer electronic cash system called Bitcoin, which contributed to the creation of a completely new class of digital asset. [1] Seventeen years later, market participants, lawyers, academics, lawmakers, and regulators are still grappling with crucial issues related to the status of these new crypto assets under federal securities laws.