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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Says Crypto Regulation Could Be Faster

10 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments author_nan

United States SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, speaking at a conference on Nov. 9, said that the US government was slow to regulate the cryptocurrency market and that regulation in the space could be faster. Peirce was speaking at CoinDesk’s Bitcoin...

Kik Ends Lawsuit with $5M Settlement

21 Oct 2020 1 minute read 1 comment author_nan

Kik has ended a lawsuit with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), having paid $5 million to settle the case, according to court documents published on October 20. The two parties have “reached agreement on a proposed judgment”...

Grayscale's ETH Trust Becomes an SEC Reporting Company

13 Oct 2020 1 minute read 1 comment author_nan

Digital asset management firm Grayscale Investments has made its Ethereum Trust an SEC reporting company, according to a press release made on October 2. Grayscale’s Ethereum Trust is the firm’s second trust to be an SEC reporting company, the first...

John McAfee Arrested for Tax Evasion, Also Sued by SEC for Securities Violation Charges

6 Oct 2020 1 minute read 1 comment author_nan

Spanish authorities have arrested entrepreneur and cryptocurrency proponent John McAfee, according to an announcement by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) on October 5. The DoJ levied charged of tax evasion against McAfee, while the US SEC separatel...

US Judge Says That Kik's Token Sale Violated Securities Law

1 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments author_nan

On September 30, a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of New York ruled that messaging app KIK’s $100 million token sale held in 2017 violated securities law. The judge said that the KIK token met all of the criteria of the Howey test, wh...

SALT Lending Settle with the SEC

1 Oct 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Tomadachi

SALT - the project that facilitates cash loans using cryptocurrency as collateral - announced they have reached a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding the offer and sale of SALT Tokens in its initial coin offeri...

Why I had to tell the SEC about the UNI air drop.

29 Sep 2020 2 minute read 11 comments Hippos4ever

Okay, so I didn’t HAVE to, but I did. I took the 45minutes maybe a hour, went to the SEC website, and formally filed a complaint against Uniswap and its creator, Hayden Adams, for security violations including fraud, and the offering of a unverified...

Are you a liquidity provider on Uniswap? You need to read this

24 Sep 2020 5 minute read 17 comments ScreenTag

Remember Telegram's token? Probably not. It is definitely remembered though, by those early investors participating to their ICO. Uniswap's founder Hayden Adams, decided though not to get a lesson from Telegram, and thus Uniswap is getting closer by...

Crypto Mom Re-Elected for Another 5 Years at SEC

10 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments author_nan

On August 6, Forbes reported that Commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Hester Peirce was approved by the United States Senate for a second term. Peirce is known as “crypto mom” within the cryptocommunity for her pro-innovat...

SEC names institutional investors of bitcoin trust Grayscale Investments

8 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Danyakot

27 institutional investors purchased shares in the bitcoin trust (GBTC) of Grayscale Investments. Information about this is contained in reports for the us securities and exchange Commission (SEC), according to Forbes. The presented data indicates th...