2024年10月10日 · The Commission filed a district court action and obtained an emergency asset freeze against an allegedly fraudulent ICO that claimed to run the world’s first “decentralized bank.” The Commission later settled with two former executives behind the allegedly fraudulent ICO in December 2018. 1/25/2018. 12/11/2018. In re Munchee, Inc

I. Introduction. If you are considering an Initial Coin Offering, sometimes referred to as an "ICO," or otherwise engaging in the offer, sale, or distribution of a digital asset, you need to consider whether the U.S. federal securities laws apply.

2017年12月11日 · The cryptocurrency and ICO markets have grown rapidly. These markets are local, national and international and include an ever-broadening range of products and participants. They also present investors and other market participants with many questions, some new and some old (but in a new form), including, to list just a few:

participate in the ICO, investors are generally required to transfer consideration (often digital assets) to the issuer's blockchain address, online "wallet," or other account. 22. At some point after the completion of the ICO, the issuer will distribute the tokens to the participant's unique "wallet" address on the blockchain.

2020年1月21日 · The complaint also alleged Grybniak and Opporty marketed the ICO by making material misrepresentations and omissions and engaging in other deceptive conduct, including exaggerating the number of users and growth of its online blockchain-based marketplace for small businesses, misrepresenting the nature of Opporty’s purported partnership with ...

2018年9月11日 · The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that TokenLot LLC, a self-described “ICO Superstore,” and its owners will settle charges that they acted as unregistered broker-dealers.

If you are considering an Initial Coin Offering, sometimes referred to as an “ICO,” or otherwise engaging in the offer, sale, or distribution of a digital asset,2 you need to consider whether the U.S. federal securities laws apply. A threshold issue is whether the digital asset is a

2025年2月21日 · The Crypto Task Force seeks to provide clarity on the application of the federal securities laws to the crypto asset market and to recommend practical policy measures that aim to foster innovation and protect investors.

2019年8月12日 · Middleton is also enjoined from further violations of the market manipulation provision of Section 9(a) of the Exchange Act. All Defendants are ordered to disgorge, on a joint and several basis, $7,891,600 in ill-gotten gains from the VERI ICO plus $582,535 in prejudgment interest, and Middleton is ordered to pay a $1,000,000 civil penalty.

July 21, 2023 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against Quantstamp, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, for conducting an unregistered initial coin offering (ICO) of crypto asset securities. Quantstamp agreed to settle the charges by disgorging proceeds from the offering and paying a civil penalty.