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Abstract
The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) is the most powerful regulator of the U.S. securities market and serves to “protect investors; maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and facilitate capital formation.” The agency’s task of protecting retail investors and regulating market participants has been, at times, reduced to a binary choice between “Main Street” investors and “Wall Street” insiders. Some regulators and legislators rely on this binary to put pressure on cryptoassets, claiming that more regulation leads to more effective investor protections. This Note rejects that premise. Genuine tokens offerings (i.e., unregistered security offerings not designed to defraud investors) must be allowed to enter the marketplace, without the red tape, in order for the SEC to properly fulfill its three-part regulatory mission.
Recommended Citation
Kathryn A. Daly,
Freeing Cryptoassets from Howey: A Defense of Genuine Token Offering,
16 Brook. J. Corp. Fin. & Com. L.
219
(2022).
Available at:
https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/bjcfcl/vol16/iss2/6
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