Sat.Jun 01, 2019

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Audio Of The Week: How About Howey?

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

This Unchained Podcast with Patrick Gibbs of the law firm Cooley and Ted Livingston founder of the Kin cryptocurrency project is a great discussion of the Howey Test that the SEC has put forward as the framework through which to evaluate whether a crypto token is a security. Here are links to some interesting parts of the discussion: 1/ Ted Livingston explains who Howey was and the details of that case. 2/ Patrick explains why Kin (and most crypto tokens as well) is not a security.