Crypto assets have moved from novelty to mainstream and so have the disputes. From hacked exchange accounts and failed token launches to insolvent businesses holding significant digital reserves, the matters reaching commercial litigators are faster moving, cross‑border and technically dense. For insolvency practitioners, digital wallets may be highly valuable assets but the easiest to dissipate. 

The English courts have recognised that crypto assets can constitute property capable of supporting proprietary injunctions and freezing orders. The point was made plain in AA v Persons Unknown, where the Commercial Court granted a proprietary injunction over traced Bitcoin and endorsed the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce’s analysis on…