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Investors sue Coinbase, alleging the platform sold unregistered securities.
The post Investors File Lawsuit, Claim Coinbase Sold Unregistered Securities appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2024-5-6 06:51 | |
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Genesis Global Capital will pay a $21 million fine and enter a permanent injunction to resolve the SEC’s allegations. Genesis will seek an injunction alleging that it offered and sold securities without proper registration, according to a March 19 SEC…
2024-3-19 16:41 | |
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The federal regulator instituted a cease-and-desist against ShapeShift, which dissolved its U.S. crypto exchange in 2021.
2024-3-6 03:58 | |
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The crypto-powered video platform LBRY has lost a case against the SEC, making its native asset a security. LBRY Sold Unregistered Securities LBRY has lost to the SEC. In a...
2022-11-8 00:48 | |
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A federal judge ruled for the SEC in its case against LBRY on Monday.
2022-11-7 19:17 | |
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Ripple's problems started when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) started looking into how the company advertised and sold its XRP tokens. Since then, the SEC has maintained that the token iThe post A re-listing spree for XRP on exchanges soon? Maybe, but only if... appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-11-5 04:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange OSL Digital Securities has distributed security tokens to professional investors in Hong Kong in a private security token offering (STO).
2022-7-27 14:18 | |
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ICO tokens from Crowd Computer were sold to Americans as “investment contracts,” according to the SEC’s complaint, which classifies them as securities.
2022-1-7 06:04 | |
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Tesla, the biggest electric vehicles car manufacturer, has stated in the latest filing with the Securities and Exchanges Commission that they have sold no bitcoin and they may start accepting...
2021-10-26 19:00 | |
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MicroStrategy has successfully sold off $500 million worth of notes (“the notes”) which it announced it was selling on June 8th in a press conference, to buy Bitcoin. The notes were sold to qualified institutional buyers in a private offering in reliance to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933. They were all sold […]
2021-6-15 22:36 | |
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2021-4-30 16:38 | |
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2021-3-13 18:10 | |
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Another class-action lawsuit has been filed against Ripple Labs and CEO Brad Garlinghouse. This lawsuit follows the one filed by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that the defendants sold XRP, which it considers unregistered security, for over $1.
2021-1-30 19:35 | |
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Former Disney child actor and U. S. Presidential candidate, Brock Pierce, was served with a lawsuit during a political campaign event held on Monday. The class-action lawsuit was filed in May and it claims the defendants, including Pierce, sold unregistered securities during the EOS initial coin offering (ICO).
2020-9-16 03:15 | |
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The former CFTC chair’s analysis stating that Ripple’s XRP is not a security might be wrong.
2020-7-4 16:55 | |
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According to a Form-D filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Digital Investment Group has sold almost $140 million in its NYDIG Bitcoin Yield Enhancement Fund LP. The pooled investment Bitcoin fund was previously unknown to the public but was awarded a BitLicense in 2018.
2020-5-15 15:20 | |
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The federal court in the USA sided with the American regulator that claims that Telegram sold securities under the guise of tokens during the ICO, and extended the temporary ban on transferring Grams to investors.
2020-3-26 14:11 | |
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On Feb 26, Judge Phyllis Hamilton of the Northern District of California ruled that the class-action lawsuit filed by investors claiming Ripple sold unregistered securities will move forward. The judge also noted that digital assets that do not fall under securities law will be subject to laws against unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices […]
2020-3-14 15:06 | |
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Stephen Ehrlich is a veteran in the capital markets space. He has worked in the industry for more than 25 years, starting out his career at TIR Securities, an institutional brokerage that was sold to E*TRADE Financial.
2020-1-4 12:30 | |
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Stephen Ehrlich is a veteran in the capital markets space. He has worked in the industry for more than 25 years, starting out his career at TIR Securities, an institutional brokerage that was sold to E*TRADE Financial.
2020-1-3 12:30 | |
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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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“The Securities and Exchange Commission today sued Kik Interactive Inc. for conducting an illegal $100 million securities offering of digital tokens. The SEC charges that Kik sold the tokens to...
2019-6-4 20:48 | |
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has published an update on how it intends to regulate crypto-related businesses and initial coin offerings (ICOs).
2019-6-1 19:04 | |
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By CCN: On Thursday, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a civil injunctive action against the operator of an alleged pyramid scheme that raised $26 million from investors. The defendant in the case is Daniel Pacheco, 45, a resident of San Clemente, California who has been charged by the SEC with selling unregistered securities as well as operating a multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency pyramid scheme.
2019-5-28 09:16 | |
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission is suing Daniel Pacheco, claiming he sold unregistered securities and raised $26 million with a crypto-related Ponzi scheme he ran through his companies IPro Solutions LLC and IPro Network LLC.
2019-5-24 00:08 | |
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On May 20, 2019, Stephen Palley, a lawyer, published the United States District Court of Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division’s order containing allegations by plaintiffs that Clifford “T.
2019-5-23 17:00 | |
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Tether, a stablecoin tied to the dollar that is meant to mediate the volatility of other cryptocurrencies, is partly backed by bitcoin. As detailed in court documents obtained by The Block, Tether admitted to using some of the cash reserves meant to back its stablecoin to purchase bitcoin, among other assets.
2019-5-22 23:02 | |
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The token holders were reportedly promised profits from the work of the company
2019-5-21 14:10 | |
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On May 9, 2019, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), issued new “interpretive guidance” about how its regulations apply to businesses that conduct money transmissions in virtual currencies.
2019-5-11 21:34 | |
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Blockstack, which has filed with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to potentially become the first registered crypto token offering, has revealed some of the details of its planned steps in its regulated token sale.
2019-4-13 18:58 | |
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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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ASIC chip manufacturer Canaan Creative is closing the gap between itself and industry leader Bitmain after a massive infusion of capital. In its latest funding round, the Chinese mining company has raised several hundred millions of dollars, Chinese publication Securities Times reports.
2019-3-14 00:05 | |
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Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton has formally confirmed existing staff analysis that Ethereum and other similar decentralized cryptocurrency assets are not securities, even if they were initially sold through an illegal securities offering.
2019-3-12 16:46 | |
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KIK CEO Ted Livingston is challenging the SEC’s treatment of the firm’s native token which was released last year. In September 2018, $100 million worth of Kin tokens were sold to the public. However, according to Livingston, the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission believes that Kik issued an unregistered currency, a claim […]
2019-1-28 17:28 | |
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Bitwise Asset Management, a cryptocurrency index fund provider, has applied for a new bitcoin-backed exchange-traded fund (ETF). The application, submitted with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), outlines the company’s proposal.
2019-1-10 20:11 | |
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On November 27, 2018, a California judge turned back the SEC’s request for an injunction against token company BlockVest, a company the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pursuing for allegedly conducting an unregistered securities offering.
2018-12-1 22:36 | |
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Two days ago, SEC issued a statement that Airfox, a Boston-based company that held an ICO where it collected $15 million of funds, didn’t registered their ICO and because of that failed to comply with the federal securities laws in the United States.
2018-11-18 16:47 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled charges against two cryptocurrency companies which were accused of violating ICO securities offering registration rules. Both firms, Carrier EQ (Airfox) and Paragon Coin sold digital tokens in ICOs in 2017 after the regulator’s official stance on the ICO.
2018-11-17 01:00 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has agreed to settle charges with two startups that sold tokens through Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) in 2017. The companies were charged by the SEC for running their ICOs after the regulator clearly defined such offerings as unlicensed securities in its DAO Report of Investigation.
2018-11-17 00:07 | |
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CryptoNinjas The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced settled charges against two companies that sold digital tokens in initial coin offerings (ICOs). These are the commission’s first cases imposing civil penalties solely for ICO.
2018-11-17 00:07 | |
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On November 16, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced settled charges against two companies that sold digital tokens in initial coin offerings (ICOs). These are the Commission’s first cases imposing civil penalties solely for ICO securities offering registration violations.
2018-11-17 21:00 | |
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A Brooklyn-based businessman turned cryptocurrency huckster faces up to five years in prison for orchestrating two monstrously phony initial coin offerings (ICOs) last year. Maksim Zaslavskiy, a former institutional developer and “businessman,” plead guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit securities fraud before a New York district court yesterday, reports FinanceFeeds.
2018-11-16 14:18 | |
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One of the largest blockchain technology companies in the world, Bitfarms, applied for a preliminary prospectus with the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) to offer public shares on one of Canada’s leading exchanges.
2018-11-15 20:13 | |
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Ripple’s legal team in their ongoing securities suit is attempting a new tack: to have the claim proceed at the federal level. In a move that legal commentator Jake Chervinsky described as “seriously crafty,” Ripple has filed a formal notice-of-removal motion to have their most recent securities suit, Zakinov et al v.
2018-11-14 00:41 | |
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tZero announced it has issued its preferred tZero security tokens, sold during the Security Token Offering (STO) earlier this year. The company raised $134 million from investors worldwide during the months-long STO.
2018-10-17 20:00 | |
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Securities can be defined as investment instruments bought and sold in financial markets, such as bonds, debentures, notes, options, shares (stocks), and warrants. This means that they can fall victim to fraud through forgery as well as physical theft.
2018-9-29 12:05 | |
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In a landmark case for the cryptocurrency industry, a federal judge has ruled that a cryptocurrency caught in the midst of a lawsuit is a commodity, court documents reveal.
2018-9-28 23:15 | |
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Does a decades-old securities law apply to an initial coin offering (ICO)? In a case that represents the first time securities laws have been applied to cryptocurrencies, a district judge says it may.
2018-9-12 22:09 | |
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A court in the USA has today ruled that tokens sold during ICOs count as securities under federal law, according to Bloomberg, which stated in an article that “Federal prosecutors won a key legal victory when a judge ruled that U.
2018-9-12 21:09 | |
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Jens Willemen is a Partner & Co-Founder at Kairon Labs, an advisor and crypto market maker for digital asset issuers.
Last week, the Department of Justice announced charges against over a dozen individuals and entities, arguing these market makers were actually wash trading funds and defrauding people.