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Are ICO Tokens Securities? Startup Wants a Judge to Decide – WSJ

By Securities Docket on January 28, 2019, 8:47 am

Social-media startup Kik Interactive Inc. of Waterloo, Ontario, plans to fight an expected enforcement action from the Securities and Exchange Commission over a 2017 initial coin online offering, Chief Executive Ted Livingston told The Wall Street Journal, setting the stage for a legal battle that could have broad ramifications for the digital-currency market.

The SEC’s enforcement division believes Kik issued an unregistered security when it sold $100 million in “kin,” a digital token that Kik says works like a currency on the its platform, according to Mr. Livingston and documents reviewed by the Journal.

via Are ICO Tokens Securities? Startup Wants a Judge to Decide – WSJ.

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