Markets have taken a turn for the worse as North American investors reacted to the SEC’s latest pronouncements for future token sales. Based on the new guidance, regulators will continue to treat all token sales as likely securities for the foreseeable future. Markets fell more than $17bn since Wednesday morning. Digital assets across the board...Read More
SEC claimed that ICO Rating violated the anti-touting provisions of Section 17(b) of the Securities Act of 1933 by failing to disclose payments it received from initial coin offering (ICO) issuers it rated and published on its platform. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Russian entity ICO Rating agreed to pay $268,998 in...Read More
Earlier this month Kik released a 130-page filing that accused the Securities and Exchange Commission of “twist[ing] facts” in its lawsuit against the company’s 2017 Kin token sale. The company disputes claims that the 2017 sale of KIN tokens, which raised more than $100M, was a desperate attempt to save the company from ruin, and...Read More
The Veritaseum blockchain platform and its founder Reggie Middleton have filed a response to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the regulator’s claim that its ICO was fraudulent and illegal, and that Middleton had later manipulated the VERI token’s value. As a result, the SEC managed to get a New York court last week to temporarily...Read More
As many as 70,000 people could be facing financial ruin as a massive crackdown sweeps across Ghana’s banking system. It serves as yet another stark warning that governments and banks are in full control of people’s money. Only decentralized assets such as bitcoin would be immune from such monetary madness. State ‘Cleanup’ Wipes Out Billions...Read More
Photo: INX / Twitter INX Limited is a cryptocurrency exchange startup which plans to do an IPO as their token sale. The main difference is that this time the whole party wants to be properly regulated. While it is known that the 2017 ICO craze was completely unregulated and everybody could get away with it,...Read More
There are many reasons why the Philippines is becoming increasingly crypto-friendly. Not only has its central bank registered more crypto exchanges recently, but the Securities and Exchange Commission has also been actively finalizing crypto guidelines. The country has an active crypto community, and one of its largest banks has engaged in multiple crypto projects. Also...Read More
Photo: Silvergate Bank Silvergate Capital Corporation, the corporation standing behind Silvergate Bank, recently filed an S1/A form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) where they note that they have found the niche of crypto loans attractive for them. They noted: “We believe there may be attractive opportunities to provide digital currency borrowing...Read More
This week, US President, Donald J Trump, decided that he would like to buy Greenland, thereby completely surrounding the USA’s northern neighbor Canada. Denmark semi-politely told him to… that it wasn’t for sale. Perhaps he would have more luck buying Bitcoin? Bitcoin Price: Down But Not Out Well, when it comes to bitcoin price, arguably...Read More
There are many reasons why the Philippines is becoming increasingly crypto-friendly. Not only has its central bank registered more crypto exchanges recently, but the Securities and Exchange Commission has also been actively finalizing crypto guidelines. The country has an active crypto community, and one of its largest banks has engaged in multiple crypto projects. Also...Read More
Bakkt has announced that it will be launching its bitcoin futures trading platform in September 2019. In a blog post published on August 16, 2019, the cryptocurrency trading company announced that its long-anticipated futures product will be going live on September 23, 2019, following approval to create a qualified custodian trust company from the New...Read More
