Ethereum and Bitcoin did not have to comply with regulation, admitted Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin in an interview with industry news outlet Forkast published on Nov. 18.
During the interview - which took place at the Hong Kong FinTech Week - Lubin noted that new projects need to comply with regulations, and explained the impact of the application of security law to the cryptocurrency space.
You can't sell a utility token, it's not one.
Lubin said that - to attract investors - any project has to promise that its token will increase in price.
Given that the appreciation is usually obtained through the work of developers, by definition, an asset that is being sold is a security.
"And so securities law is then implicated and now you can't sell a utility token as it's not a utility token, it's a tokenized security. You can't sell it broadly and equitably."
Overall, Lubin highlighted Ethereum's first-mover advantage.
More precisely, he suggested that Ethereum's developers had the opportunity to sell their cryptocurrency without complying with securities regulation because it operated in a still largely unregulated industry.
On the other hand, cannot simply claim that what they are selling is a utility token and avoid registering it as a security.
In a recent example of the consequences of the application of securities law to crypto assets, Telegram recently asked the New York Southern District Court to throw out accusations by United States regulators accusing its Grams tokens of being securities.
Joe Lubin: Ether and BTC Didn't Face Regulations Unlike New Projects
Publicado en Nov 18, 2019
by Cointele | Publicado en Coinage
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