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19 Jul 2023 5 minute read 4 comments Allen Taylor
On July 13, 2023, U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres ruled partially in favor of Ripple Labs and partially in favor of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to settle once and for all whether XRP is a security. Here's how the judge ruled: XR...
8 Jun 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Pizzadren
What a week it has been. In my previous weekly bits, the SEC has charged Bittrex for operating an unregistered securities exchange. Now, the SEC cracking down on two of the biggest and most popular crypto exchanges in the world in Binance & Coinbase,...
5 Aug 2022 4 minute read 1 comment MintDice.com
In July 2022, American’s woke up everywhere to the headline that Coinbase, a popular cryptocurrency trading app, is under scrutiny from the SEC. The headlines officially said it was under investigation for selling illegal securities, but what does th...
10 Jun 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor
Earlier this week, a bi-partisan bill addressing the nature of cryptocurrencies seeking to define individual coins and tokens as either securities or commodities entered the national discussion on cryptocurrencies. The National Law Review has made so...
7 Mar 2022 4 minute read 6 comments MintDice.com
In 2020, the world was shocked when the SEC announced it was filling a case against the creators of Ripple, accusing them of illegally raising an unprecedented $1.3 billion in funds for the sale of their cryptocurrency. This announcement was detrime...
8 Jan 2021 6 minute read 5 comments Craig Borysowich
One of the more complex systems we have in finance is issuing, buying, selling, settling, and running corporate stock offerings on a public exchange. Because of how this process was created to facilitate the exchange of money for securities, the tra...
24 Nov 2020 1 minute read 6 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
On Nov. 23, China’s second largest bank, the China Construction Bank (CCB), withdrew its listing of $3 billion in debt securities on the blockchain, according to an announcement from partner exchange Fusang. The Fusang exchange said that the CCB had...
11 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
Blockstack PBC filed a notice with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on August 10 that explains how it plans to decentralize the network. The notice was accompanied by a blog post explaining the effort. Blockstack was the fi...
19 May 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Abhimanyu Krishnan
EOS ICO investors have filed a class action lawsuit in a case of securities fraud against EOS developer Block.one and leadership on May 18, according to official documents. Crypto Assets Opportunity Fund LLC and Johnny Hong filed the complaint in the...
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...
