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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce warns crypto vaults and onchain lending may face securities laws depending on how each product is structured.
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Two securities transfer groups have urged the SEC to prioritize issuer-backed tokenized stocks and ETFs while limiting unaffiliated versions that may not provide shareholders with direct ownership rights. Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company outlined its position in a letter…
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Coinbase has secured a $150,000 settlement from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after the regulator lost nearly 11 months of former Chair Gary Gensler’s text messages. A Wall Street Journal op-ed written by Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal…
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Ionic Digital has secured SEC approval for its registration statement, clearing the final regulatory hurdle before its planned Nasdaq direct listing on July 28. According to a company statement issued Monday, the digital infrastructure operator expects its Class A common…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Mining Automatic and its owner, Zan Shaikh, after they allegedly raised about $22 million from more than 380 investors through a fraudulent crypto mining operation. The SEC announced the partially settled charges…
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XRP won. Seven years of legal limbo ended on a single Wednesday in March, when two agencies put it in writing. What almost nobody has noticed is what kind of writing it was, and how little it would take to…
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Everyone is watching a bill that may not pass. Meanwhile, the agency that spent seven years suing this industry has quietly scheduled a rule that would let startups sell tokens without registering them, and it does not need a single…
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Injective files for SEC transfer agent registration to bring tokenized securities ownership records onchain under a regulated U.S. framework
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BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust has secured a major regulatory win after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved a fourfold increase in the ETF’s options position limit from 250,000 to 1 million contracts. According to a notice published by the…
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David Schwartz says the SEC repeatedly treated XRP itself as a security before a 2023 court ruling separated the token from Ripple sales.
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The Howey test explained: the 1946 Supreme Court standard deciding which crypto tokens are securities, and how the CLARITY Act could replace it.
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Ripple nearly shut down after the SEC lawsuit and considered giving away its XRP holdings. Here’s how that decision still explains XRP’s token thesis today.
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The SEC’s Regulation Crypto would create startup and fundraising exemptions for token issuers, offering a fallback if the CLARITY Act stalls.
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John Deaton says 75,000 XRP holders helped Ripple resist SEC pressure as the closed case returns to focus after executive accounts surfaced.
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The Trump White House has rejected accusations that it is refusing to nominate Democratic commissioners to the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission as the Senate moves closer to debating the CLARITY Act. According to a letter…
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American CryptoFed has urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to recognize its Locke governance token registration ahead of an Aug. 17 deadline that the organization says should take effect automatically under federal securities law. According to a memorandum published…