On July 12, 2018, a federal judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York reaffirmed its view that cryptocurrency fraud is subject to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s anti-fraud and anti-manipulation enforcement authority.
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U.S. Judge Finds That Centra Tech Token Is a Security
By Scott H. Kimpel & Hannah Flint on
Posted in Cryptocurrencies, Initial Coin Offerings
On June 25, 2018, a magistrate judge of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Florida released a report finding that cryptocurrency tokens issued in an initial coin offering by a startup company are securities under the federal securities laws.
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