SEC Chair Clayton: Safeguards Don’t Exist in Digital Currency Markets

SEC Chairman Jay Clayton relayed a mixed message to the crypto community during a conversation with Glenn Hutchins, founder of private equity firm Silver Lake Partners at the Coindesk Consensus Invest conference yesterday. Speaking in a personal capacity, Clayton praised blockchain – bitcoin’s underlying technology – and said that the technology had “incredible promise” for… Read More SEC Chair Clayton: Safeguards Don’t Exist in Digital Currency Markets

The Case For Ethereum As A Security Token

During a Congressional hearing last month, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said all ICO tokens he had seen were securities. That remark, with all its attendant implications, has spooked investors and snowballed into a series of actions that might end up radically reshaping cryptocurrency markets. Since Clayton’s remark, the SEC has tightened the screws on coin… Read More The Case For Ethereum As A Security Token