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Telegram responses to TON investors about the recent allegation brought by the U.S. SEC about their token offers and sales. In a letter to investors, Telegram said they were actively interacting with the US SEC over the past 18 months. They are surprised and disappointed that the SEC chose to...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced that it has filed an emergency action and obtained a temporary restraining order against Telegram Group Inc and its subsidiary ‘TON’ Issuer Inc who conducted an unregistered offering for Telegram’s TON tokens in the U.S. and overseas. According to the SEC’s complaint,...
Nebulous, the company building Sia Network, a decentralized cloud storage platform, announced today that it has entered into a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The settlement relates to SEC allegation that Nebulous conducted an unregistered offer and sale of Sianotes in May 2014 which gives holders...
Block.One, the company building EOSIO, announced today a settlement with U.S. Securities and the Exchange Commission (SEC) for an unregistered sale of EOS tokens. Block.one will pay a one-time fine of US$24 million. Additionally, the SEC has also granted Block.one with an important waiver so that Block.one will not be...
The United States Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) plans to gather financial data (transaction records) from Bitcoin and Ethereum ledger through contractors, in addition to as many as possible of the following blockchains: Bitcoin Cash, Stellar, Zcash, EOS, NEO, and XRP Ledger and plans to add more blockchain entrants as...
VanEck/Solidx now joins the race with Bitwise: The VanEck/SolidX proposed Bitcoin ETF has now officially entered the SEC register. VanEck/Solidx now joins the race with Bitwise who got registered a week earlier to launch first bitcoin ETF of U.S. The VanEck/SolidX proposal was initially filed last year but was withdrawn...
Last year alone a combined 12 Bitcoin ETFs were submitted to the SEC, of which 11 were rejected. The proposals which got rejected proposed launching a Bitcoin ETF either using cryptocurrency exchanges to calculate the base price of the asset or relying on the Bitcoin futures market price. The rejection,...
