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Coinbase Wins the First Round Against the SEC

19 Jan 2024 7 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

The first hearing of the case filed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission SEC against Coinbase was held. However, this should not be called a trial. In fact, the judge listens to the parties at the preliminary hearing, where the jud...

Are Coin Launches a Thing of the Past?

19 Jan 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Todd Mei PhD

Houston, we may have a problem . . . The heyday of the crypto boom (pre-2022) featured hundreds of on-chain projects promising trustless utility, pie-in-the-sky autocompounding interest rates, and the wishful possibility of investing in a native coi...

SEC v LBRY: Implications for the Blockchain Economy

21 Nov 2022 9 minute read 1 comment JamesIrving

  In a recent judgment (published November 7, 2022), the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire has ruled that the LBC token, which is designed for use on the LBRY blockchain, is a registrable security for the purposes of the...

Mr. Gensler is Wrong - Ethereum PoS 'IS NOT' a Security

14 Oct 2022 11 minute read 0 comments kev_nag

General Information In a 2018 speech, William Hinman, the former director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, stated: Based on my understanding of the present state of Ether, the Ethereum network and its decentralized structure, current of...

Regulation of STOs

4 May 2020 4 minute read 1 comment JamesIrving

    Judging by the frequency of court cases in the United States involving the promoters of ICOs and STOs, there is either some confusion among token and coin promoters about the application of securities regulations, or there is a reluctance to com...

Is XRP a Security?

26 Sep 2019 6 minute read 1 comment Gustas_X_R_P

Functioning primarily as a cross-border payments network that can facilitate large international transfers in a matter of seconds, Ripple‘s XRP token has stirred much debate as to its status as a security. Indeed, the token has several distinctions f...

Titanium Blockchain: Why It Failed

22 Sep 2019 5 minute read 1 comment MintDice.com

On May 22, 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint against Titanium Blockchain, an Israeli start up in the middle of its ICO at the time. According to the SEC, the firm had violated the commission’s registration and...