SEC anklager podcaster i første uregistrerede værdipapirsalgskrav mod NFT-tilbud

SEC anklager podcaster i første uregistrerede værdipapirsalgskrav mod NFT-tilbud

Tidsstempel: 28. august 2023 kl. 2

De Forenede Stater Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) har opladet a media and entertainment company with conducting unregistered securities sales when it sold nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to investors between October and December 2021. 

Impact Theory, et Los Angeles-baseret selskab, der producerer underholdning og undervisningsindhold, inklusive adskillige podcasts, hævede angiveligt næsten 30 millioner dollars gennem salget af NFT'er, som det kaldte Founder's Keys, som blev tilbudt i tre niveauer.

Virksomheden "opfordrede potentielle investorer til at se købet af en Founder's Key som en investering i virksomheden," ifølge SEC, og:

"Impact Theory understregede, at det 'forsøger at bygge det næste Disney', og hvis det lykkedes, ville det levere 'enorm værdi' til Founder's Key-købere."

The SEC found that the NFTs were investment contracts, and so securities, and the company violated the Securities Act of 1933 by selling them without registration. It udstedt a cease-and-desist order that Impact Theory has agreed to.

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Under the SEC order, the company was ordered to pay a total of more than $6.1 million in disgorgement, prejudgment interest and a civil penalty, without admitting or denying the agency’s findings. Further, a fund will be created to return money to investors in Founder’s Key NFTs. Impact Theory will destroy all Founder’s Keys in its possession or control, publish a notice of the order on its websites and social media channels, and not receive royalties from future sales of the NFTs on the secondary market.

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According to NFT Stats, a “Legendary” (top) tier Founder’s Key NFT last solgt two days ago for $1,468 as one of ten sales in the last week. The token supply is 13, 572, with 4,620 owners. The Founder’s Key is only one suite of NFTs the company offers. They did not respond to a Cointelegraph enquiry by the time of publication.

This was the SEC’s first enforcement action involving an NFT, SEC commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda skrev in their dissent of the action. “The NFTs were not shares of a company and did not generate any type of dividend for the purchasers,” they wrote, adding

“We share our colleagues’ worry about the type of hype that entices people to spend almost $30 million for NFTs seemingly without having a clear idea about how they will use, enjoy, or profit from them. […] This legitimate concern, however, is not a sufficient basis to pull the matter into our jurisdiction.”

The promises made by Impact Theory and cited in the SEC order “are not the kinds of promises that form an investment contract.” The commissioners compared the promises made about the NFTs to statements made by sellers of collectibles. They went on to suggest a list of nine questions the agency should consider before pursuing NFTcases:

"Uanset hvad man synes om Howey-analysen, rejser denne sag større spørgsmål, som Kommissionen bør tage sig af, før den anlægger yderligere NFT-sager."

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