Kate A Stanley

Kate A Stanley

December 06, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

SEC Update: Division of Enforcement Continues to Scrutinize Digital Token Sales

In a sign that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is continuing to aggressively scrutinize token sales and initial coin offerings (ICOs), offers and sales of digital assets conducted by organizations using distributed ledger or blockchain technology are often referred to as "initial coin offerings" or "token sales," the Division of Enforcement recently announced that it settled registration charges against two companies that sold unregistered digital tokens.

By Robert L. Hickok, Jay A. Dubow and Kate A. Stanley

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