Early Riser - Interactive Primer
Understanding, Detecting and Recovering Crypto and Digital Assets: Developing an Understanding of What Digital Assets Are, and Common Misconceptions that Can Derail Your Case
Cara Cameron
Partner
Woods (Canada)
Sarah Murray
Partner
Stevens & Bolton LLP (UK)
In the ever-changing landscape of digital asset fraud, many fraud and asset recovery practitioners face mounting challenges in the areas of cryptocurrency, NFTs, blockchain, smart contracts and other digital assets. The uncertainty in these areas can quicky derail your case if they are not well understood; and can create a variety of issues and challenges.
Join us in this two-part, highly interactive primer session as we:
- Define and unpack the complexities of detecting fraud and tracing assets across the chain, such as:
- Crypto Assets & The Blockchain
- The Metaverse
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
- Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
- Smart Contracts
- Decentralized Finance Bridges (DeFis)
- Examine the latest developments and best practices for tracing and recovering these assets, including:
- Is Crypto fraud trending towards becoming a “paradise” for fraud and asset recovery practitioners?
- Are there tools available to prevent Pig Butchering Scams?
- Are crypto assets treated as traditional assets for the purpose of asset recovery?
- Do mixers/tumblers stop asset recovery in its tracks?
- What are the challenges in recovering assets?
- What are the prospects of FTX’s creditors receiving compensation?