ICO legalities in 2020?

[JeotQ]

Why is OP complaining about this? USA is the only country capable of standing against this ICO criminals, we should be happy about that because no other country can stand against these crypto crimes, many ICO projects scammers are still at large but USA is doing a good job

[cotton ball]

Even though ICO's have lost the appeal lately.

I was just wandering about the legalities. The SEC website confuses me. In the eyes of the SEC are true utility tokens still classed as securities in the USA? Is this why many companies avoid the USA when it comes to ICO's?

If a company from outside the USA releases a token, do they have to comply with SEC regulations to enable usa investors?

I am not from the usa but live here now. Is it a resident or a citizen issue?

Developer not brave guarantee with their legalities of ICO project investment because they know how terrible and bigger risk with investing in ICO although always giving promise for investor their coin keep stable on higher price and listing with bigger exchange market, but at the end of ICO many time delay listing and only brave listed with shit exchange market.

[Shasha80]

As we know, ICO projects are indeed very vulnerable to scams, and therefore the United States is very closely related to ICO projects.
The SEC is trying to protect American citizens, including people who live in America must follow the SEC rules. So even if you are not
an American citizen, because you live in America must follow the SEC rules. So my advice is that you avoid getting involved with ICO
projects, if you don't want to get involved in legal issues with the SEC.No wonder Libra projects and GRAM tokens are difficult to get
permission from the SEC legality. In 2020 nothing has changed related to the legality of ICO in America.

[VDraci]

Not gonna happen, ICO is forgotten for now until another form of fundraising rise from the deep and IEO success relies on Top exchanges, if i see anyone from binance i will definitely invest and sell later for profit, i don't know or understand why people still looks up to ICO

[shinratensei_]

OP, the main problem is when there were investors from US who try to invest in such ico while SEC has not yet allowed it to happen. If there was a company from outside of USA and it's not always if the company must comply with SEC regulation but it's not the right way to raise the funds from the ICO. If the ico wanna accept US investors and it must be registered before under SEC regulation.

[totoy4741]

Not gonna happen, ICO is forgotten for now until another form of fundraising rise from the deep and IEO success relies on Top exchanges, if i see anyone from binance i will definitely invest and sell later for profit, i don't know or understand why people still looks up to ICO

There are projects that run an ICO still but the probability of success is not as good as it was before when ICO was a hot trend. And IEO will come to die just like ICO. And there is no assurance that the project that runs an IEO will succeed in 80-100 rate, because of exchanges reputations.

[Hippocrypto]

Even though ICO's have lost the appeal lately.

I was just wandering about the legalities. The SEC website confuses me. In the eyes of the SEC are true utility tokens still classed as securities in the USA? Is this why many companies avoid the USA when it comes to ICO's?

If a company from outside the USA releases a token, do they have to comply with SEC regulations to enable usa investors?

I am not from the usa but live here now. Is it a resident or a citizen issue?

In my own opinion with this certain perspectives, this isn't a citizen or resident issue but it was utterly pointing out a serious reasons behind an ICO or investments related to cryptocurrency. For past years this has been very rampant of scams and fraudulent projects.
By way of protecting the citizens who lived in a particular country, this has been regulated for an outgoing money be sent for cryptocurrency ICO participation.

[Viscore]

ICO to be declared legal is gonna be a good thing that would happen in the market, at least this way we can revive the reputation of ICO and investors will be attracted again. There are a lot of opportunity in crypto especially when investing in crowdsale but due to lack of regulation, lots of scams are happening so that discourages the possible potential investors.

If we ever see a legalized ICO, we have two good platform that will exist in the market, its the IEO and ICO and together they will bring fresh money inflows to the market.

[justdimin]

We shouldn't be worried about legality of these things in 2020, I mean all these companies could basically follow the legal ones that have done it already and just make the same thing before they even make a website, if they want to be legit and taken seriously that is all they gotta do.

We already have very few ICO and other coin offerings left in numbers, both in offering but also funding as well, people do not like to give their money to coins that are untested, they go on and buy coins that do not collect money anymore and just invest into their future instead, so with the limited amount of money left in the crypto coin offering world, they might as well just do it properly or not do it at all because people are not going to really put up with it anymore.

[Ozero]

Now, work continues on around the world, including the United States, on the further classification of cryptocurrencies, and more than once there has been a well-founded opinion that cryptocurrency cannot be under the jurisdiction of the SEC, since it does not directly apply to securities. In many states, it is not recognized as a security. Therefore, it can still change. SEC is one of the US state regulatory bodies and almost every state has a similar body. However, we constantly remove a lot of SEC attention. I do not live in the USA and therefore SEC solutions do not interest me very much. More attention should be paid to the decisions of international bodies on the regulation of cryptocurrency.

[BigBos]

ICO to be declared legal is gonna be a good thing that would happen in the market, at least this way we can revive the reputation of ICO and investors will be attracted again. There are a lot of opportunity in crypto especially when investing in crowdsale but due to lack of regulation, lots of scams are happening so that discourages the possible potential investors.

If we ever see a legalized ICO, we have two good platform that will exist in the market, its the IEO and ICO and together they will bring fresh money inflows to the market.

I have never seen an ICO that has legality, but if it was developed, maybe the ICO would rise again. it's just that ICO's trust has now diminished, so even though it has clear legality, people might consider it. besides, IEO is better than ICO, so, I think it's good for now, it's just that it takes time to develop.

[sjbi]

I do not think there comes more ICOs in the coming future. Are not there enough crypto projects in the market? And what to do with additional crypto projects as the already projects are not implementing what they have been established for (rather they are just involved in something like gambling and price speculation). So what crypto projects should do is they should start enforcing their ideas.

[slaman29]

Why is OP complaining about this? USA is the only country capable of standing against this ICO criminals, we should be happy about that because no other country can stand against these crypto crimes, many ICO projects scammers are still at large but USA is doing a good job

You don't need USA to stand up, but I sort of agree it's good all these regulations are getting in the way of scams. Now I only hope to god the US hunts down all the ICO scammers and we know there are so many also in this forum itself. They're mostly enjoying their wealth now but one day I hope the law catches up to them. Meanwhile, let's all be smarter and not give ICO scammers our money ok?

[Byakuga]

The one way to revive ICO from it's death bed is if it become legalized, it will take time for investors to start jumping right in again but in time things will become better, for now ICO investment is a bad idea and it need to be avoided at all cost

[magneto]

Even though ICO's have lost the appeal lately.

I was just wandering about the legalities. The SEC website confuses me. In the eyes of the SEC are true utility tokens still classed as securities in the USA? Is this why many companies avoid the USA when it comes to ICO's?

If a company from outside the USA releases a token, do they have to comply with SEC regulations to enable usa investors?

I am not from the usa but live here now. Is it a resident or a citizen issue?

It's probably exactly that - there are certain regulatory hoops that you'd have to jump through as soon as the thing that you are trying to sell constitutes a security rather than a utility token per se, and it is very difficult to comply with SEC regulations.

We've already seen projects like Kiktoken and so on getting shut down by the SEC and asked to pay a fine because of the fact that they marketed to US audiences, and obviously no company would want that to happen to them.

It's better safe than sorry for sure. You don't want the future of your company being in jeopardy.

[BenisKekles]

I think ICOs ruined altcoins so anything to make them less prevalent is good. Seriously prior to their popularity, you used to be able to find a newly made shitcoin, mine it with your semi-decent computer, and dump it the second it makes it on an exchange for little to no risk. Then ICOs became popular and soon every new shitcoin was an ICO because it's even easier for the creator to make money that way.

[shinratensei_]

The one way to revive ICO from it's death bed is if it become legalized, it will take time for investors to start jumping right in again but in time things will become better, for now ICO investment is a bad idea and it need to be avoided at all cost

To be compliant with the regulators are not easy dude, you must fulfill all of the requirements. This is a good way to survive the ico but the problem is there is no regulatory framework that was fully controlling the ico.
Ico is bad idea when there was no a middle party who will act as an escrow just like IEO platform that already launched by binance. Investors need guarantee if they will receive what they want.
In this case regulation acts as a replacement for the escrow to give guarantee to the investors.

[anjiitem]

Even though ICO's have lost the appeal lately.

I was just wandering about the legalities. The SEC website confuses me. In the eyes of the SEC are true utility tokens still classed as securities in the USA? Is this why many companies avoid the USA when it comes to ICO's?

If a company from outside the USA releases a token, do they have to comply with SEC regulations to enable usa investors?

I am not from the usa but live here now. Is it a resident or a citizen issue?

Developer not brave guarantee with their legalities of ICO project investment because they know how terrible and bigger risk with investing in ICO although always giving promise for investor their coin keep stable on higher price and listing with bigger exchange market, but at the end of ICO many time delay listing and only brave listed with shit exchange market.

This is often the case where developers will certainly continue to provide good news for investors and also their token holders to keep them willing to buy more or invest in the projects they bring. But in the end most of the projects were registered in the shit exchange which certainly made people think that the developer wasn't serious about developing the project and also only gave sweet promises to the people who participated in it.

[lepbagong]

Even though ICO's have lost the appeal lately.

I was just wandering about the legalities. The SEC website confuses me. In the eyes of the SEC are true utility tokens still classed as securities in the USA? Is this why many companies avoid the USA when it comes to ICO's?

If a company from outside the USA releases a token, do they have to comply with SEC regulations to enable usa investors?

I am not from the usa but live here now. Is it a resident or a citizen issue?

Developer not brave guarantee with their legalities of ICO project investment because they know how terrible and bigger risk with investing in ICO although always giving promise for investor their coin keep stable on higher price and listing with bigger exchange market, but at the end of ICO many time delay listing and only brave listed with shit exchange market.

This is often the case where developers will certainly continue to provide good news for investors and also their token holders to keep them willing to buy more or invest in the projects they bring. But in the end most of the projects were registered in the shit exchange which certainly made people think that the developer wasn't serious about developing the project and also only gave sweet promises to the people who participated in it.

This is the current reality that ICO is indeed very unprofitable and always brings problems that don't go away. all because people who seek profits for a moment so sacrificing their self-esteem that makes many investors become apathetic towards ico themselves, because many are misused. but will ico improve in the future? it is still very possible if unauthorized misuse can be minimized by the good cooperation of all of us.

[kynaz]

The one way to revive ICO from it's death bed is if it become legalized, it will take time for investors to start jumping right in again but in time things will become better, for now ICO investment is a bad idea and it need to be avoided at all cost

ICO are not encouraged to invest at this time and it is best to stay away early because the risk when choosing to invest will be very high. Currently, many good projects are available in this market so instead of investing in ICO, you should take the time to learn about those projects. By all means, do not trust others when participating in ICO because for me, ICO are rubbish and have no great value in investment.