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Browse: Home / 2022 / May / 09 / Think an NFT is not a security? Don’t bet on it. Three lessons from the Texas and Alabama cease and desist order of Sand Vegas Casino Club | Thompson Coburn LLP – JDSupra

Think an NFT is not a security? Don’t bet on it. Three lessons from the Texas and Alabama cease and desist order of Sand Vegas Casino Club | Thompson Coburn LLP – JDSupra

By Securities Docket on May 9, 2022, 7:54 am

Recently, the Texas State Securities Board and the Alabama Securities Commission each issued emergency cease and desist orders to stop Sand Vegas Casino Club and its principals from selling Non-Fungible Tokens (“NFTs”) in those states. According to Sand Vegas, the proceeds of the sale of NFTs were stated to be used for the creation of virtual-casinos on the Internet and in virtual worlds known as “metaverses”. The NFTs, which were sold on Sand Vegas’s website and through promotions on social media through YouTube, Twitter and Instagram, provided the buyer with a virtual gambling character (a so-called “Gambler Ape”), with certain other benefits, including a share of any profits generated by the casinos Sand Vegas created (which they claimed would be amounts well in excess of the offering price of the NFTs). The Sand Vegas matter illustrates three important lessons for those who wish to issue NFTs.

Source: Think an NFT is not a security? Don’t bet on it. Three lessons from the Texas and Alabama cease and desist order of Sand Vegas Casino Club | Thompson Coburn LLP – JDSupra

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