US Man Sentenced to Prison for Embezzling $20M of ICO Investors' Funds
Jerry Guo represented himself to clients as an ICO consultant, then embezzled funds now worth over $20 million.
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Jan 27, 2021 at 9:16 a.m. UTC
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Kik Must Pay SEC $5M, Judge Rules, Ending Yearlong Battle Over $100M ICO
Kik will pay $5 million in penalties as part of a proposed settlement with the SEC, which sued the messaging app last year.
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Oct 20, 2020 at 5:18 p.m. UTC
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Crypto Esports Startup Unikrn to Pay $6.1M in SEC Settlement Over 2017 ICO
Unikrn has agreed to settle the charges, without admitting or denying them, by paying a $6.1 million penalty to be distributed among investors.
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Sep 15, 2020 at 7:13 p.m. UTC
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SEC Charges Rapper TI With Securities Violations for Promoting 2017 ICO
The SEC alleged film producer Ryan Felton misappropriated funds from two separate initial coin offerings, and charged rapper TI with boosting one of them.
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Sep 11, 2020 at 9:52 p.m. UTC
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What Is Yield Farming? DeFi’s Hot Trend Explained
The world of decentralized finance (DeFi) has taken off, giving birth to Ethereum-based applications like yield farming and liquidity mining. CoinDesk Senior Research Analyst...
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Sep 8, 2020 at 6:31 p.m. UTC
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Tezos Investors Win $25M Settlement in Court Case Over $230M ICO
A U.S. lawsuit that alleged the Tezos ICO was an unregistered securities sale has been settled for $25 million.
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Sep 1, 2020 at 10:28 a.m. UTC
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A Former Beauty Queen Raised $12M to 'Revolutionize' Cannabis. The Courts Can't Find Her
Here's how a weed-smoking model raised millions of dollars with a 2017 token sale in California, then disappeared during an ongoing lawsuit.
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Aug 19, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. UTC
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Cosmos’ Founding Team Broke Up Early This Year. The Project Didn’t
How Cosmos, the blockchain interoperability project that turned a small ICO into a thriving ecosystem, survived the breakup of its founding team.
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Aug 10, 2020 at 2:00 a.m. UTC
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Investors Suing Over Status ICO Can't Find Execs to Serve Papers
Investors suing crypto firm Status are seeking “alternative means” to serve top executives after they were unable to deliver court papers via traditional means.
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Aug 6, 2020 at 9:21 a.m. UTC
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Novel Charts Dark Side of ICO Mania
Haydn Wilks' latest novel examines the cryptomania of the 2017 ICO boom.
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Jul 18, 2020 at 12:30 p.m. UTC
Jul 18, 2020