THELOGICALINDIAN - The US Balance and Exchange Commission SEC has acclimatized accuse with two antecedent bread alms issuers These cases are the commissions aboriginal to appoint civilian penalties alone for ICO balance alms allotment violations Both companies accept agreed to acquittance investors pay penalties and annals their tokens as securities
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Charges Settled
On Friday, Nov. 16, the SEC announced “settled accuse adjoin two companies that awash agenda tokens in antecedent bread offerings (ICOs).” The bureau explained that Carriereq Inc. (aka Airfox) and Paragon Bread Inc. both “consented to the orders after acceptance or abstinent the findings,” elaborating:
The two companies’ tokens are neither registered with the SEC nor able for an absolution to the allotment requirements.
Stephanie Avakian, co-director of the SEC’s Enforcement Division, emphasized that “companies that affair balance through ICOs are appropriate to accede with absolute statutes and rules administering the allotment of securities.”
The SEC added detailed:
These two cases chase the agency’s aboriginal non-fraudulent ICO allotment case of Munchee Inc. The SEC did not appoint a amends in that case because the aggregation chock-full its offerings afore carrying any tokens and promptly refunded investors.
The Two Companies
Both Airfox and Paragon conducted badge sales aftermost year afterwards the SEC warned that ICOs can be advised aegis offerings in its DAO report, a battleground cardboard that serves as the defining certificate for ICOs to abstain actuality categorized as balance in the U.S.
Boston-based Airfox aloft about $15 actor by affairs 1.06 billion of its tokens to added than 2,500 investors globally through assorted websites that it controls. The aggregation claims that the funds would be acclimated “to accounts its development of a token-denominated ‘ecosystem’,” the SEC described.
Established in July aftermost year, Paragon awash its tokens to about 8,323 investors, including those in the U.S. The aggregation “raised about $12 actor account of agenda assets to advance and apparatus its business plan to add blockchain technology to the cannabis industry and assignment against amends of cannabis,” the agency noted.
Paragon issued a account on Friday acknowledging that it has accomplished a adjustment acceding with the SEC afterwards alive on it with a aggregation at the agency for over a year. CEO Jessica Versteeg calls it “a actual absolute acceding … that will finer put an end to the uncertainties of the acknowledged cachet ” of her company’s token.
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