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An adopted, working solution to this can't come any faster.

We’re excited to announce that Liquifi has received its SOC 2 Type I compliance certification via Vanta! This latest certification underscores our commitment to privacy, security, and customer trust.

For more information, please see our blog post:
liquifi.finance/post/liquifi-i…

🚨 Today a different SDNY District Court Judge emphatically rejected Judge Torres' Howey analysis in the recent Ripple case. Recall that Torres held that sales of XRP to institutional investors could be unregistered securities while similar 'programmatic' sales to retail were…

not a lawyer but seems like the key takeaway of Ripple ruling is the mechanism by which token sales occured (private sales or via exchanges) to determine if a contract existed. Via exchanges seem to be big winners here. Coinbase, as the leading exchange, likely going to become…

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Ripple case, here is the good and the bad.

But it is mostly *VERY* good for all alts, and a surprisingly big win for XRP.

First Judge did decide institutional sales/fundraising was securities.

1/ Today, the next technical proposal of Polygon 2.0 is unveiled:

POL, the upgraded token of the Polygon protocol! 💫

POL is the next generation native token, designed to secure, align and grow the Polygon ecosystem.

Watch the video to get an idea how cool it is, then 🧵

Polygon Labs responds to SEC's claim MATIC is a security theblock.co/post/234063/po…

DAO liability 👀

This is brutal

*Robinhood ends support for Solana, Polygon, Cardano amid SEC exchange crackdown

Highly encourage everyone to apply to Alliance upcoming cohort.

If you’re feeling lost or unsure about how to navigate early stage startups in crypto, this is the right program for you.

Few key reasons why:

Getting access to key customer insights from your peers, industry…

Today we charged Coinbase, Inc. with operating its crypto asset trading platform as an unregistered national securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency and for failing to register the offer and sale of its crypto asset staking-as-a-service program.

sec.gov/news/press-rel…

This was coordinated as fuck.

Looks like 10 US state regulators joining SEC claims and filing actions against Coinbase today trying to drown them in paperwork.

For example, here is Alabama: asc.alabama.gov/News/2023%20Ne…

Initial thoughts on the SEC's complaint against Binance:

1. SEC asserts BUSD is a security; Binance's efforts to build out 'the ecosystem' creates an expectation of profit.

2. SEC asserts token burn features create an expectation of profit under Howey.

3. If SOL, MATIC, ATOM,…

Today we charged Binance Holdings Ltd. (Binance); U.S.-based affiliate, BAM Trading Services Inc., which, together with Binance, operates Binance.US; and their founder, Changpeng Zhao, with a variety of securities law violations.

sec.gov/news/press-rel…

This is not being talked about enough - Etherscan just added advanced filtering to their site.

This will make reading on-chain data much easier and much more powerful.

Here's a simple guide on how to use this new feature 🧵:

Not on my 2023 bingo card