On August 28, 2018, the North American Securities Administrators Association published a press release with an update on the progress of the coordinated enforcement sweep of the ICO market dubbed “Operation Cryptosweep.”
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Operation Cryptosweep: Regulators in the United States and Canada Crack Down on ICOs
By Mayme Beth Donohue on
Posted in Cryptocurrencies
North American Securities Administrators Association (“NASAA”) members from more than 40 jurisdictions across the United States and Canada are working together in “Operation Cryptosweep,” a coordinated series of enforcement actions to crack down on fraudulent initial coin offerings (“ICOs”), cryptocurrency-related investment products and the individuals behind them. NASAA organized a task force of its members in April 2018 to begin these coordinated investigations, which identified hundreds of ICOs in the final stages of pre-launch preparation and other cryptocurrency-related investment products.
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