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Grayscale Investments is waiting for a federal court tomorrow or soon after to formalize the defeat it handed the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) two months ago in the parties’ dispute over a spot bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF). origin »
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A US appeals court has overturned an SEC rule mandating hedge funds and private equity firms to increase transparency on fees and expenses, stating the regulator exceeded its authority. The post SEC ‘exceeded’ authority on fee disclosures, US appeals court rules appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2024-6-7 10:44 | |
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US court has directed the SEC to address Coinbase’s rulemaking petition within a week, as the crypto exchange seeks regulatory clarity for digital assets amidst an ongoing lawsuit and heightened enforcement actions against market participants. The US Court of Appeals…
2023-6-7 15:24 | |
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James K. Filan reported that the SEC has filed a letter requesting that the Court seal a portion of Exhibit A. Attorney James K. Filan tweeted that the SEC has filed a letter requesting that the Court seal a portion...
2022-6-15 09:58 | |
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The court has provided back-to-back rulings over the past 24 hours in the ongoing legal battle between Ripple Labs, its execs, and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Granted, DenThe post XRP lawsuit update: Did the court just deliver 'a big blow' to the SEC's case? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-6-16 17:00 | |
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The court has confirmed that the SEC doesn't have to produce informal staff communications about XRP, Bitcoin, and Ethereum
2021-5-8 08:53 | |
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According to a court filing on June 24, 2020, the U.S Southern District Court of New York Judge Kevin Castel, ordered Telegram to pay a civil penalty of $18.5 million to the SEC within the next 30 days for violating the securities laws in issuing its GRAM tokens during its public offering. The court also […]
2020-6-26 23:59 | |
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In a court filing submitted to the U. S District Court of Utah, the SEC is moving to freeze the assets of three participants in a cryptocurrency scam (Daniel F. Putnam, Jean Paul Ramirez Rico, Angel A.
2020-6-8 22:36 | |
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has filed an emergency lawsuit in a Brooklyn federal court in an attempt to prevent a somewhat popular ICO from spending the money that was raised from the issuance of its cryptocurrency.
2019-8-14 01:00 | |
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U.S. district court has approved of the temporary freeze on $8 million of a New York citizen and two of his entities’ related assets following the U.S. SEC
2019-8-14 22:16 | |
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Canadian instant messaging company, Kik, has hit back at the US regulator trying to sue its ICO with a giant public document. Kik Implies ICO Trial Was SEC Publicity Stunt Following that news that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was taking Kik to court in June, the company has now released a response in which lawyers dissect its allegations on a sentence-by-sentence basis.
2019-8-8 14:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Kik Claims ‘SEC Has Been Twisting Facts’ in Their Ongoing Legal BattleKik kicked back at the SEC lawsuit that claims a $100 million ICO was illegal. The company behind Kik Messenger filed a response in U.
2019-8-7 10:13 | |
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Crypto-lawyer, Jake Chervinsky has created a Twitter AMA, giving his opinions on the latest in the ongoing Kik/SEC saga. Kik’ed By the SEC Yesterday came news that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is officially suing Kik over their alleged illegal securities sale.
2019-6-6 22:00 | |
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Crypto-lawyer, Jake Chervinsky has created a Twitter AMA, giving his opinions on the latest in the ongoing Kik/SEC saga. Kik’ed By the SEC Yesterday came news that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is officially suing Kik over their alleged illegal securities sale.
2019-6-5 22:00 | |
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By CCN: Ethereum’s status as a legitimate transactional currency was confirmed once again this week – by none other than the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC’s recent lawsuit against Kik (KIN) details the particulars of the KIN token sale – the public phase of which was carried out against ETH, as opposed to the U.
2019-6-5 16:57 | |
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In a turn everyone should’ve seen coming, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing messaging app Kik for its initial coin offering (ICO). In court documents released yesterday, the SEC outlined that Kik’s sale of one trillion “Kin” tokens was not registered with the SEC.
2019-6-5 11:26 | |
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Coinspeaker SEC Accusing Kik for Illegal ICO, and They May Be RightThe U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission is suing messenger app maker Kik for $100 million ICO for its Kin token which they think was an unregistered securities sale.
2019-6-5 11:20 | |
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Why Kik’s fight with the SEC could end up creating a new Howey test for crypto
2019-6-2 18:02 | |
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By CCN: Canadian mobile-messaging company Kik is preparing to fight the SEC tooth-and-nail when the agency sues the firm over its $100 million ICO. Many companies settle to avoid a protracted and expensive legal war.
2019-5-31 17:36 | |
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The firm behind Kik, a Canada-based messaging app, is going to court with the US Securities and Exchange Commission… The post Controversy Arises Around KIK $5M Fund To Take On the SEC appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-5-30 21:51 | |
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Kin Foundation, one of the main powerhouses behind the development of Kin ecosystem, started an initiative against the United States Securities and Exchanges Commission, a ‘Defend Crypto’ campaign with a $5 million fund alongside Coinbase.
2019-5-29 20:30 | |
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By CCN: The Kin Foundation is attempting to take crypto regulation into its own hands. In an interview with Laura Shin on the Unchained podcast, Ted Livingston, founder of the Kin Foundation and Kik CEO, unveiled the Defend Crypto fund, which is designed to “fight the SEC in court.
2019-5-29 21:10 | |
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The stakes are high as Kin becomes the first major ICO to face a court battle with the SEC, thus potentially setting an important precedent
2019-5-29 20:20 | |
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At DefendCrypto.org, individuals can donate in any of 19 cryptocurrencies. Along with using the funds in its own lawsuit with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Kik hopes to raise money for other crypto-related businesses facing legal skirmishes with the regulatory agency.
2019-5-28 18:58 | |
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Messaging app firm Kik has launched a crypto crowdfunding campaign to support a likely court battle with the U.S. SEC over its ICO token, kin.
2019-5-29 17:11 | |
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By CCN: The U. S. SEC has secured a court order to stop an alleged diamond-backed Ponzi scheme estimated to be worth around $30 million. The securities regulator outlined how more than 300 investors were fleeced into handing over funds to Florida-based Argyle Coin LLC.
2019-5-22 22:30 | |
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By CCN: Nobody puts Elon Musk in a corner. Well, maybe the SEC. The Tesla CEO has reached a settlement with the U. S. securities watchdog. According to the court filing, which still requires a judge’s John Hancock, Musk will be tweeting a whole lot less than he’d probably like, certainly less than his 26.
2019-4-27 02:32 | |
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By CCN: Elon Musk and the SEC are talking, demonstrating progress in a regulatory battle that has been drawn out for months. While the Tesla CEO and the securities regulator have yet to reach an agreement regarding a contempt of court dispute, they could be close.
2019-4-20 03:53 | |
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Marco Santori, President and Chief Legal Officer of Blockchain, spoke about the impact SEC’s framework would have on security tokens, during an interview with Laura Shin for Unchained Podcast.
2019-4-6 08:00 | |
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk lost $1. 1 billion from his net worth yesterday morning (April 4) amid his court showdown with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the first few minutes of trading, Tesla stock cratered as much as 11% before staging a tepid recovery by day’s end.
2019-4-6 17:10 | |
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To the surprise of almost no one, Elon Musk walked out of a federal courthouse Thursday still wearing the hat of CEO of Tesla. He was there for a hearing that resulted from the US Securities and Exchange Commission charging in February that Musk had violated an agreement it reached with him in October over his tweeting.
2019-4-5 00:12 | |
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Lawyer Stephen D. Palley has an interesting write-up at the Block about how a federal judge has ruled that ATB Coin was an unregistered security even if the token didn’t entitle buyers to profits.
2019-4-4 04:30 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published an investment contract framework for digital assets, which is intended to give crypto companies guidance as to whether a cryptocurrency is a security.
2019-4-4 22:02 | |
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Jon Montroll, the man behind BitFunder and WeExchange, was charged with fraud last February. He pleaded guilty last July, and will be sentenced in April. Montroll reportedly hid the theft of over 6,000 BTC from his platform in 2013, and went to great lengths to hide the hack – even lying to investigators.
2019-3-29 19:40 | |
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Billionaire Elon Musk fired back at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s February 2019 contempt filing designed to muzzle the Tesla CEO’s Twitter commentary. Elon Musk: ‘SEC’s Position Is Wrong’ In a fiery response filed March 22 in New York federal court, Musk slammed the SEC for its “radical reinterpretation” of a September 2018 consent decree under which he agreed to get approval from Tesla’s board before tweeting anything that could impact TSLA’s stock price.
2019-3-24 14:41 | |
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Ride-sharing leader Uber is about to steal the thunder of its nearest competitor. Reuters reports that Uber is set to file its S-1 document with the SEC in April followed by a road-show to court big investors, which will set in motion plans to debut in the public market.
2019-3-15 19:07 | |
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Mark Karpeles, CEO of the now-defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, has been sentenced by the Tokyo District Court. The court convicted him of record tampering but found him not guilty of embezzlement.
2019-3-15 09:25 | |
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If Elon Musk was busy last week, he’s swamped this week. The workaholic Tesla boss has his hands full at the best of times overseeing one of the world’s most valuable car companies (Tesla), a ground-breaking private space exploration enterprise (Space X) and his lesser-known but equally interesting public-transit company (The Boring Company).
2019-3-14 04:55 | |
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Lawyers for Tesla’ CEO Elon Musk have accused the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission of ‘unprecedented overreach’ and violating the constitutional rights of the iconic billionaire. Musk’s legal team was responding to an SEC request to have the court hold Musk in contempt, according to Reuters.
2019-3-12 14:45 | |
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is in hot water again. Following comments on Twitter that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says violated the terms of his September 2018 settlement, Musk could find himself facing suspension and penalty fees.
2019-3-8 11:55 | |
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A supreme court advocate has explained the limitations of the Indian government’s power to regulate cryptocurrency, determining that the court should not get involved. Meanwhile, the crypto community awaits the government’s regulatory framework and the supreme court hearing of the petitions against the banking ban by the central bank.
2019-3-5 10:35 | |
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The Supreme Court of India has reportedly given the Indian government four weeks to come up with cryptocurrency regulations before making its ruling on pending crypto cases. The court was set to hear the petitions against the crypto banking ban by the central bank this week.
2019-2-25 12:50 | |
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The Supreme Court of India has reportedly given the Indian government four weeks to come up with cryptocurrency regulations before making its ruling on pending crypto cases. The court was set to hear the petitions against the crypto banking ban by the central bank this week.
2019-2-25 12:50 | |
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Commissioners of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have come together to discuss their regulatory approaches to bitcoin futures contracts and bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
2019-2-18 12:47 | |
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After failing to convince a federal court regarding the nature of Blockvest tokens in the previous hearing, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has finally convinced the same judge that these tokens are securities.
2019-2-17 08:55 | |
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After failing to convince a federal court regarding the nature of Blockvest tokens in the previous hearing, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has finally convinced the same judge that these tokens are securities.
2019-2-17 08:55 | |
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The SEC filed a complaint against Blockvest and its founder for allegedly making unregistered securities offerings and using the SEC seal without permission. On Feb. 14th, the US District Court of California entered in a preliminary injunction against the firm.
2019-2-17 01:56 | |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced a preliminary injunction granted against Blockvest LLC for unlicensed security offer. This overturns a previous court order, claiming that the SEC failed to prove that the token was a security.
2019-2-16 05:00 | |
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The move came after the same judge denied an SEC request for a preliminary injunction in November.
2019-2-15 00:45 | |
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on January 28 that Woodbridge Group of Companies LLC has to pay $1 billion in penalties and disgorgements. The decision was taken by a federal court in Florida after considering the company operated a Ponzi scheme aimed at retail investors. Court orders $1 billion judgment against operators […]
2019-1-29 17:53 | |
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If the company's case can clear one procedural hurdle, it will have the SEC on its heels in Texas.
Half of the 2023 sanctions from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) targeted digital assets companies and individuals, according to the agency's annual enforcement snapshot released on Tuesday.
Terraform Labs and its co-founder, Do Kwon, are asking a federal judge to side with them in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fraud case, arguing that the regulator hasn't managed to prove the crypto company was offering securities.
The regulator stepped up enforcement actions in the crypto space following the revelations around FTX.