SEC.gov | Statement on Digital Asset Securities Issuance and Trading

in sec •  6 years ago  (edited)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/9xpsot/secgov_statement_on_digital_asset_securities/

summary of the SEC statement:

The Commission's recent enforcement actions involving AirFox, Paragon, Crypto Asset Management, TokenLot, and EtherDelta's founder,[3] discussed further below, illustrate the importance of complying with these requirements. Broadly speaking, the issues raised in these actions fall into three categories: (1) initial offers and sales of digital asset securities (including those issued in initial coin offerings ("ICOs")); (2) investment vehicles investing in digital asset securities and those who advise others about investing in these securities; and (3) secondary market trading of digital asset securities. Below, we provide the Divisions' views on these issues.

AirFox and Paragon will pay penalties and also have undertaken to register the tokens as securities under Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

The Commission found that EtherDelta's activities clearly fell within the definition of an exchange and that EtherDelta's founder caused the platform’s failure either to register as a national securities exchange or operate pursuant to an exemption from registration as an exchange.[13]

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As far as I can tell nothing new.

ICO's should register, decentralized exchanges should register, brokers providing ICO tokens should register...