News with the tag "howey test"

BitcoinWorld DAO Regulation: Advocates Fight for Exemption from SEC Howey Test The world of decentralized finance (DeFi) is constantly pushing boundaries, but it often runs headfirst into existing regulatory frameworks designed for traditional finance. A major point of contention? How decentralized ...

Prominent crypto exchange Coinbase is set to face a class-action lawsuit by some customers over accusations of selling securities as an unregistered dealer-broker. This latest development comes amid the exchange’s interlocutory appeal in an ongoing case with the US Securities and Exchange Commission...

Trump Memecoin Accused of Securities Misconduct: Forbes Analysis A recent Forbes article by Alexandra Andhov, a law professor at Auckland University, has raised serious allegations against TRUMP , the Solana-based memecoin issued by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Andhov asserts that TRUMP aligns...

Coinbase Inc. has been given an unusual chance to skip ahead in a U.S. federal court dispute with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) when a judge granted the company's request to chase a narrow appeal of the regulator's accusations about trading crypto securities. If the U.S. digital asset...

The Digital Chamber issued a crypto agenda for the incoming SEC leadership to repair its “troubled relationship” with the crypto industry.

In the latest round of the SEC suit against Binance, Binance.US and CZ, the agency has largely repeated itself in a form more acceptable to the court.

Ripple challenges SEC’s ruling on institutional XRP sales, claiming the Howey test was misapplied.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a formal notice of appeal against Ripple Labs in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The appeal follows a district court’s ruling in August, which the SEC argues contained significant legal errors. SEC Challenges Ripple Labs R...

Justin Sun and his associated companies are “not challenging the ‘common enterprise’ element of the Howey test,” ruled the New York District Judge.

Many crypto observers may be “overreading” the security regulator’s latest filing for its Binance lawsuit, meaning Solana and other tokens may not be off the hook yet.