Crypto Weekly (Okt. 2nd, 2019)
Oct 2, 2019
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Weekly recap...
- EOS settled with the SEC related to the sale of its ERC-20 tokens.
- ETH testnet split into two chains - shouldn't affect upgrade timeline
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1. EOS emerges from ICO era a survivor
Block.one (EOS) announced a settlement with SEC for $24 million
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Block.one (organization backing EOS) settled with the SEC for conducting an unregistered securities offering in 2017-2018. Specifically, the SEC judged EOS' ERC-20 tokens were sold to investors with the expectation of profit.
The settlement was for $24 million. This pales in comparison to the ~$4 billion EOS raised but that's how much was raised globally. Hard to say how much of that came from US investors.
The ERC-20 tokens were what the SEC deemed to be securities, not the underlying EOS blockchain tokens that were subsequently launched.
EOS' settlement with the SEC shows...
- Good lawyers matter. And cooperating with regulatory bodies > not cooperating with regulatory bodies (see: Kik).
- Don't expect the old ICO market to return, despite what some say was a lenient settlement.
- One lawyer believes that the SEC has implicitly deemed EOS to be non-securities. If true, this means EOS has come out of the ICO era a suvivor with a very big war chest.(Source: BitcoinExchangeGuide)