Judge Mulls Whether Initial Coin Offerings Are Securities

By Dunstan Prial · May 8, 2018, 8:19 PM EDT

A Brooklyn federal judge on Tuesday heard two starkly different takes on whether digital tokens issued in an allegedly fraudulent initial coin offering were securities subject to regulation by the U.S....

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Case Information

Case Title

USA v. Zaslavskiy

Case Number

Court

New York Eastern

Nature of Suit

Date Filed

November 21, 2017

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