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Overview

Discovering NFTs: What Your Company Needs to Know About NFTs in 2024

Why You Should Attend

Join our experienced faculty as they explore the unique and cutting-edge legal issues arising out of the growing legal landscape around NFTs and learn how to the rapid evolution of blockchain technology can have a direct impact on your clients’ businesses and the legal issues that you must confront on a regular basis around a constantly shifting legal landscape.

What You Will Learn

After completing this program, participants will be able to:

  • Understand how NFTS are used in business transactions, including using NFTs as collateral, perfecting security interests in NFTs, and valuation
  • Know financial issues surrounding NFTs including securities laws, money transmission laws and regulations, AML, OFAC prohibited countries and potential risks and strategies around use of digital currencies
  • See how federal and state tax laws and regulations apply to NFTS. Are there any business strategies in connection with NFTs that could be advantageous from a tax point of view?

Who Should Attend

This program is ideal for attorneys who counsel clients on developing, purchasing or using technology in their daily businesses.

Program Level: Overview

Prerequisites: An interest in the legal issues posed by convergence of technology and legal services.

Advanced Preparation: None.

Intended Audience: This program is ideal for attorneys who counsel clients on developing, purchasing or using technology in their daily businesses.



Lecture Topics [Total time 00:03:30]

Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program.


  • Opening Remarks* [00:10:37]
    Daniel N. Budofsky
  • NFTs in Commerce: Sales, Financings, Security Interests and Other Transfers [01:01:27]
    Prof. Andrea Tosato, R. Marshall Grodner
  • Issues in Financial Regulation: The Applicability of the U.S. Securities Laws, Commodity Laws, and Other Financial Regulation to Various Use Cases of NFTs [01:02:34]
    Daniel N. Budofsky
  • NFT Taxation: What Guidance Currently Exists and Using Established Tax Principles to Fill the Voids [01:04:12]
    Fotis Konstantinidis, Megan L. Jones, Prof. Jordan Barry

The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online:


  • Complete Course Handbook
  • Transfers of Interests and Transactions in Digital Assets
    R. Grodner
  • Introducing Article 12 of the Uniform Commercial Code
    Andrea Tosato
  • Memorandum and Order, Dufoe v. DraftKings Inc., No. 23-cv-10524-DJC (D. Mass. 2024)
    Daniel Budofsky
  • Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs’ Amended Complaint, Harper v. O’Neal, No. 23-21912-CIV-MORENO (S.D. Fla. 2024)
    Daniel Budofsky
  • Department of the Treasury, Illicit Finance Risk Assessment of Non-Fungible Tokens (May 2024)
    Daniel Budofsky
  • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Commissioner Hester M. Peirce and Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda, Statement, NFTs and the SEC: Statement on Impact Theory, LLC (August 28, 2023)
    Daniel Budofsky
  • Order Instituting Cease-and-Desist Proceedings Pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act of 1933, Making Findings, and Imposing a Cease-and-Desist Order, In the Matter of Impact Theory, LLC, Securities Act Release No. 11226, Admin. Proc. File No. 3-21585 (August 28, 2023)
    Daniel Budofsky
  • Complaint, Mann v. Securities and Exchange Commission, No. 2:24-cv-01881 (E.D. La. 2024)
    Daniel Budofsky
  • Securities and Exchange Commission v. W. J. Howey Co., 328 U.S. 293, No. 843 (1946)
    Daniel Budofsky
  • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Commissioner Hester M. Peirce and Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda, Statement, Collecting Enforcement Actions: Statement on Stoner Cats 2, LLC (September 13, 2023)
    Daniel Budofsky
  • Order Instituting Cease-and-Desist Proceedings Pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act of 1933, Making Findings, and Imposing a Cease-and-Desist Order, In the Matter of Stoner Cats 2, LLC, Securities Act Release No. 11233, Admin. Proc. File No. 3-21655 (September 13, 2023)
    Daniel Budofsky
  • Summary of New Tax Regulations Regarding Digital Asset Transactions
    Jordan Barry
  • NFT Taxation: What Guidance Currently Exists and Using Established Tax Principles to Fill the Voids (Substantive Outline)
    Megan Jones
  • Considerations in NFT Valuation Methodologies
    Fotis Konstantinidis

Presentation Material


  • NFTs in Commerce: Sales, Financing, Security Interests and Other Transfers
    R. Marshall Grodner, Prof. Andrea Tosato
  • Issues in Financial Regulation: The Applicability of the U.S. Securities Laws, Commodity Law and Other Financial Regulation to NFTs
    Daniel N. Budofsky
  • Discovering NFTs: What Your Company Needs to Know About NFTs in 2024 (PowerPoint slides)
    Megan L. Jones
  • NFTs: New Administrative Guidance on Compliance and Enforcement
    Prof. Jordan Barry
  • Considerations in NFT Valuation Methodologies
    Fotis Konstantinidis

Why You Should Attend

Join our experienced faculty as they explore the unique and cutting-edge legal issues arising out of the growing legal landscape around NFTs and learn how to the rapid evolution of blockchain technology can have a direct impact on your clients’ businesses and the legal issues that you must confront on a regular basis around a constantly shifting legal landscape.

What You Will Learn

After completing this program, participants will be able to:

  • Understand how NFTS are used in business transactions, including using NFTs as collateral, perfecting security interests in NFTs, and valuation
  • Know financial issues surrounding NFTs including securities laws, money transmission laws and regulations, AML, OFAC prohibited countries and potential risks and strategies around use of digital currencies
  • See how federal and state tax laws and regulations apply to NFTS. Are there any business strategies in connection with NFTs that could be advantageous from a tax point of view?

Who Should Attend

This program is ideal for attorneys who counsel clients on developing, purchasing or using technology in their daily businesses.

Program Level: Overview

Prerequisites: An interest in the legal issues posed by convergence of technology and legal services.

Advanced Preparation: None.

Intended Audience: This program is ideal for attorneys who counsel clients on developing, purchasing or using technology in their daily businesses.

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