New Jersey partner Phillip Bauknight will chair the task force, which features attorneys from practice groups including wage and hour law, international law, data security and workplace privacy, corporate compliance, and employee benefits and tax.

Among its initial areas of focus will be cybersecurity; high-frequency automated markets; technology risk and regulation; commercialization; and applications of blockchain, quantum computing, natural language processing, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The development with the world's largest cryptocurrency app - with 10 million users - will now allow the Jersey City fintech to make markets in additional tokens and asset pairs.