A U.S. court has dismissed claims from regulator Securities and Exchange Commission against decentralized blockchain-based assets exchange Blockvest, court documents released Nov. 27 confirm.
The SEC suspended Blockvest's Initial Coin Offering via an emergency court order in October, with a subsequent legal battle ensuing over whether or not the firm's BLV tokens were in fact unregistered securities under U.S. law.
Part of multiple investigations into unregistered token sales by the regulator, the SEC' retaliation initially saw U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California issue a temporary asset freeze against Blockvest.
In a fresh development this week the court ruled that the SEC had "Failed" to adequately demonstrate that the tokens in question were in fact securities, according to the Howey Test.
"Thus, Plaintiff [the SEC] has not demonstrated that the BLV tokens purchased by the 32 test investors were 'securities' as defined under the securities laws."
As Cointelegraph recently reported, the regulator has seen greater success in its battle against certain other ICO operators.
This month, Paragon and Airfox, both of which raised millions of dollars via ICOs in 2017 - which the SEC retroactively rules were sales of unregistered securities - accepted a demand to repay a large chunk of funds to investors, along with fines of $250,000 each.
In an interview this week meanwhile, SEC chairman Jay Clayton remained tight-lipped regarding changes in treatment of either ICOs or cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds, repeating the regulator's previous statements.
US Court Dismisses SEC's Claims That Blockvest Sold Unregistered Securities
gepubliceerd op Nov 29, 2018
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