With the legal uncertainty finally over, Kin is poised to thrive as an active blockchain ecosystem, the Kin Foundation said. But, there seems to be some disagreement between the SEC and the Foundation over the status of the KIN token.
The proposal comes three weeks after Hellerstein handed down a summary judgment finding that Kik’s $100 million ICO was an unregistered and illegal securities offering. He decided that the offering for Kin tokens had met the three-part Howey test, which assesses whether there is an investment of money in a common enterprise with profits to be derived solely from the efforts of others.
In a devastating ruling, a federal judge handed down a summary judgement finding that Kik’s $100 million initial coin offering in 2017 was an unregistered and illegal securities offering.
SEC chairman Jay Clayton has been nominated as high-powered position as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Now, nerves are growing as to who will be tapped to take on his regulatory role, where he has been a persistent thorn in the side of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency boosters.
