48 Crypto Assets Considered by the U.S. SEC To Be Securities Beget Questions

With a significant 24-hour trading volume of $3.3 billion, as reported by CoinGecko, a group of 48 tokens, potentially categorized as securities by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), holds a substantial combined market capitalization of $91 billion.

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XRP Investors Take Legal Action After Ripple Charges

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officially charged Ripple Labs and two of its executives with the sale of over $1 billion in unregistered securities. Now, former investors are suing the SEC.

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Bitfinex CTO: Tether Is Registered and Regulated Under FinCEN- USDT Not Next Target of the US SEC

The CTO at Bitfinex Paolo Ardoino has pushed back against rumours that the company’s Tether stablecoin may be the next target of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Bitfinex executive insists that the Tether stablecoin, whose market capitalization has now surpassed $20 billion, is a properly registered and regulated crypto.

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Ripple Assails the SEC, Claims the $1.3 billion Lawsuit is an ‘Attack on the Entire Crypto Industry Here in the United States’

Ripple has hit back at the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), accusing it of creating more uncertainty and failing in its duty to protect the crypto community. In panning the SEC’s decision to designate its XRP token as a security, the company claims the regulator’s lawsuit against it amounts to an attack on the […] The post Ripple Assails the SEC, Claims the $1.

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XRP Price Analysis: 30 December

The XRP market has seen the coin's price fall after the news about the U.S Securities and Exchange [SEC] filing a lawsuit against Ripple and its executives for raising over $1.3 billion through an unrThe post XRP Price Analysis: 30 December appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Coinbase to Freeze XRP Trading Amid SEC Lawsuit Against Ripple

The suit alleges that Ripple Labs, former CEO Christian Larsen, and current CEO Brad Garlinghouse are guilty of raising $1. 3 billion from XRP token sales as unlicensed securities since 2013. Due to legal ramifications and the uncertainty of the situation, Coinbase decided that it will suspend all XRP trading beginning on Jan.

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GrayScale Bought Half a Billion Bitcoin

GrayScale bought more than $542 million worth of bitcoin last week the company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC). “Since the sales reported on the...

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Exchanges and digital asset funds stop trading in XRP after SEC lawsuit against Ripple

Galaxy Digital and Bitwise, as well as OSL trading platform suspended trading and selling XRP due to the SEC lawsuit against Ripple Labs. The San Francisco-based company is accused of selling $1.3 billion in unregistered securities.

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SEC Wipes Off $10 Billion From XRP

The Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) has wiped off billions from XRP’s value in just one day. The currency stood at a market cap of $23 billion just yesterday. Now...

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SEC Charges Ripple for Selling $1.38 Billion in Unregistered Securities

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SEC Officially Charges Ripple Executives for Unregistered Securities Sale

The news comes after recent rumors that the SEC was preparing to file these charges, something Garlinghouse felt was unjust. The SEC is accusing Ripple and associated parties of raising over $1. 3 billion in funds through the sale of  ‘ongoing digital asset securities offerings.

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BREAKING: SEC Sues Ripple, Accusing Company of Illegally Raising $1.3 Billion Through XRP

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially sued Ripple

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SEC Sues Ripple Over 7-Year, $1.3B ‘Ongoing’ XRP Sale

As expected, the SEC has filed suit against Ripple, saying it violated federal securities laws in selling $1.3 billion in XRP over the past seven years in an "ongoing" sale.

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As crypto IPO hype heats up, Coinbase contracts trade at implied $70 billion valuation

The biggest crypto-related news of the month is that of Coinbase filing a draft S1 document to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, signaling its intent to go public in the weeks and months ahead.

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Coinbase IPO Worth $28 Billion – Messari

A Step Closer to Wall Street On Dec 17, 2020, Coinbase filed an S-1 registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. This confirmed some not-so-secret rumors that the exchange intended to go public.

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$8 billion crypto startup Coinbase files draft S1 to SEC in preparation of IPO

Just minutes ago, Coinbase revealed via its Twitter and blog that it has confidentially submitted a draft registration (S1) form to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The post $8 billion crypto startup Coinbase files draft S1 to SEC in preparation of IPO appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Justin Sun’s Tron Files Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit on Security Violations in Federal Court

Tron Foundation has filed to dismiss a class-action lawsuit against them in a New York federal court according to a motion filed on Dec 15. The lawsuit claims that Tron violated securities regulations during its Initial Coin Offering (ICO) back in 2017; Tron managed to raise around $70 billion at the time.

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Anthony Scaramucci’s Firm Is Looking to Invest in Bitcoin and Digital Assets

SkyBridge Capital, a $9. 2 billion investment firm founded by the former vice president of Goldman Sachs and President Donald Trump spokesman, Anthony Scaramucci, is looking to invest in cryptocurrency filings published by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday and Monday show.

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Crypto-Related Offerings Contribute 25% Of $4.8B Collected for Fines And Disgorgements Paid to The SEC In 2020

U. S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) reports over $4. 8 billion were paid in disgorgement and penalties – a record figure – across 2020. Cryptocurrency firms and unauthorized ICOs contributed a quarter of the figure as the securities authority halted Telegram’s $1.

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SEC Contracts with DARPA Funded CipherTrace to Track BNB & Binance Chain

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is now taking a special interest in Binance Chain and the native token of the leading spot exchange Binance BNB among other tokens on its blockchain. Binance Chain hosts about 189 tokens along with the 10th largest cryptocurrency by market cap of $3 billion BNB and underlies Binance […]

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Crypto Mom, Hester Pierce, Didn’t Support SEC’s Decision To Shut Down Telegram’s $1.7 Billion ICO

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Hester Peirce disagreed with the regulator's in the latest battle to shut down Telegram’s GRAM’s project in a speech during the Blockchain Week in Singapore on Tuesday.

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Final Judgment: Telegram to Pay Crypto Investors Back $1.2 Billion, US Court Orders

The dispute between Telegram and the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is coming to a close as the final judgment has been filed. Telegram has been ordered to pay back $1. 2 billion.

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Telegram Fined $18.5 Million As Court Battle With SEC Closes; Must Pay Back $1.22 Billion from ICO

According to a court filing on June 24, 2020, the U.S Southern District Court of New York Judge Kevin Castel, ordered Telegram to pay a civil penalty of $18.5 million to the SEC within the next 30 days for violating the securities laws in issuing its GRAM tokens during its public offering. The court also […]

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Telegram negotiates settlement agreement with SEC regarding TON

The US Securities Commission (SEC) and Telegram agreed on a settlement. According to it, Telegram is obliged to return $1.22 billion to Gram buyers and pay a fine.

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Singapore’s Three Arrows Capital Buys 6% of Grayscale’s $3.5 Billion Bitcoin Fund

Three Arrows Capital Ltd has bought a 6. 26% stake of the $3. 5 billion Grayscale Investment’s Bitcoin Trust. According to a filing with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Singapore-based crypto hedge fund snapped up the equivalent of 21 million shares of the Trust’s outstanding issued capital.

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Bitcoin Posts Massive Green Candle After Fed Announces ‘Unlimited QE’

Bitcoin is following the financial markets today as they all rise after news that the Federal Reserve would be purchasing an unlimited amount of treasuries and securities. The Federal Reserve is reversing its previous decision of setting aside $700 billion for asset purchases.

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Polymath 101 – A platform to tokenise securities

Polymath is banding together with Charles Hoskinson to assemble a blockchain organize explicitly intended to help security tokens. since 2013, when Initial Coin Offerings made success, the blockchain ecosystem has raised over $3 billion USD massively pushing the traditional finance to the last ladder.

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CFTC Asked to Provide Opinion in SEC Case Against Telegram ICO

A U.S. judge has asked lawyers from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to provide an opinion in the case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Telegram's $1.7 billion token sale.

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Telegram CEO’s 18-Hour Deposition Transcript Is Published Online

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov gave a deposition regarding the alleged violation of U.S. securities law by conducting $1.7 billion Gram token sale in 2018

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Fed Officials Ponder Funding Hedge Funds and Private Brokers Directly

On January 13, the New York Federal Reserve gave $60. 7 billion to eligible private financial institutions by leveraging U. S. Treasurys and agency securities. With all the stimulus given to financial institutions since September, it hasn’t relieved the stress of economic uncertainty.

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Telegram’s rocky road to TON launch date

In 2018, Telegram conducted an ICO that reportedly raised $1. 7 billion dollars. The private token sale involved the sale of GRAM tokens through SAFT agreements to accredited and institutional investors.

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SEC Files an Emergency Motion to Know How Telegram Spent $1.7 Billion After Company’s Refusal

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a court order on Jan. 2 asking a New York federal judge to compel messaging platform Telegram Group Inc. to hand over the details of how the alleged $1.

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$80 Billion Asset Management Firm Files First Blockchain ETF With China’s Security Watchdog CSRC

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has received an exchange-traded fund (ETF) listing application for a project that tracks blockchain-based stocks as underlying assets. Called the Penghua Shenzhen Stocks Blockchain ETF, the application was accepted on December 24 by the CSRC and was filed by the Shenzhen headquartered asset management company Penghua Fund. What the […]

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SEC Reveals Telegram’s Communications With Investors, Seeks to Question Advisor

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants Telegram’s former chief investment advisor to testify and hand over documents related to the company's $1.7 billion 2018 token sale.

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HSBC Ditches Paper-Based Model, Implements Native Blockchain for $20 Billion Private Securities Holdings

The securities custody arm of HSBC is migrating its private placements database from paper to its own native blockchain. This move, according to Reuters, will enable HSBC to give its customers across the globe consummate access to their private securities database, November 27, 2019.

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Singapore’s HBSC To Launch Bond Registry Pilot Using DLT; Partnering With Temasek And SGX

One of the largest banks in the world is delving into the decentralized ledger technologies (DLT) space to offer fixed income securities on the blockchain. Singapore’s HSBC announced a partnership with Singapore Exchange (SGX), a leading exchange in debt and fixed income assets, and Temasek, a company with a net portfolio value of $231 billion […]

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SEC penalties cross $4.3 billion, returned $1.2 billion to harmed investors

The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) latest annual report concluded that the SEC Division of Enforcement collected more than $4. 3 billion in disgorgement and penalties in 2019. BasedThe post SEC penalties cross $4.

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America vs TON (Gram)

SEC – American Securities and Exchange Commission – banned Gram tokens, Pavel Durov’s TON project. Looks like he did really well. SEC sues Telegram Inc. and Ton Issuer Inc. ato get an injunction on the distribution of Gram tokens among investors involved in the presale.

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SEC halts Telegram token sale, labels 'Grams' as securities

The SEC has taken abrupt action to halt the Telegram token sale just weeks before the company planned to launch its ‘Gram’ token. The crowdsale, which raised over $1.7 billion from institutional and accredited investors in the form of SAFT agreements, may have constituted the sale of an unregistered digital token offering.

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Telegram May Need to Spill Millions to Rescue $1.7B ICO or Risk Its Termination

As if it wasn’t knee-deep in a mess already, Telegram’s ambitious billion-dollar ICO has hit yet another setback. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it is halting the company’s $1.

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SEC halts Telegram’s $1.7 billion ‘unlawful’ token offering

The US Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] announced filing for emergency action and obtained a temporary restraining order against two offshore entities, Telegram Group, and its subsidiary TON Issuer for raising over $1.

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SEC Obtains Emergency Restraining Order Against Telegram’s $1.7 Billion Token Sale

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has obtained an emergency restraining order against the Telegram Group and its subsidiary TON Issuer.  The order has been secured in order to investigate the company’s $1.7 billion...

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US Crypto Crackdown: Telegram Token Sale Rejected by SEC

The long-awaited crypto token sale from the Russian messaging platform Telegram has hit a wall in the form of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The regulator has filed an emergency action and received a restraining order for the $1.

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Telegram hit by SEC emergency action for its $1.7 billion token offering

The entities behind Telegram and its $1. 7 billion ICO were hit by an emergency action and restraining order by the SEC for failing to register its Gram token as a security. The U. S. Securities Exchange Commission is alleging that the companies behind Telegram and its initial coin offering have been conducting an unregistered securities offering.

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$322 Million: How The SEC Should Settle With Ripple Labs Over XRP

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission handed down a $24 million slap on the wrist to Block.one for allegedly selling unregistered securities in its $4 billion ICO, begging the question: what would be an appropriate settlement with Ripple Labs, which conducted an “ongoing ICO”, as Ripple’s release of XRP has been labeled in an ongoing […] The post $322 Million: How The SEC Should Settle With Ripple Labs Over XRP appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Is this SEC Signalling a Green Light to Start the Crypto Party?

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Monday that Block. One, the company behind EOS must pay $24 million in penalties for conducting an unregistered securities sale. Block. One raised a total of $4.

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U.S. SEC Charges Block.one for Its $4 Billion ICO and It’s Not as Heavy as You Think

Coinspeaker U. S. SEC Charges Block. one for Its $4 Billion ICO and It’s Not as Heavy as You ThinkBlock. one settles with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its ICO which raised about $4.

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EOS Price Shoots Up 10% Following Block.One SEC Settlement

The Securities and Exchange Commission has come to a settlement agreement with blockchain company Block. one over the yearlong token sale for EOS. It was the largest token sale of the year raising over $4 billion so naturally attracted the attention of regulators.

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EOS Maker Block.One Settles With SEC Over Unregistered Securities Sale

Block.One will pay $24 million after settling charges that it operated an unregistered securities sale with its $4.1 billion EOS raise.

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