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The Insurance and Exchange Commission issued instructions on Thursday evening, saying it does not consider the majority of valuable meme coins under federal US law.
Meme coins “usually have limited or non -use or functionality” and are “more similar to collections”, according to the Agency’s Corporate Finance Division.
“It is the view of the division that transactions in the types of meme currencies described in this statement do not include the offer and sale of securities according to the federal laws of securities,” the statement said. “Persons participating in the bid and sale of meme currencies do not need to register their transactions to the commission. … According to the circumstances, neither the buyers of the meme currencies nor the holders are protected by the federal securities laws.”
He also said “a meme currency does not constitute any of the common financial instruments specially counted in the definition of ‘security’ because, among other things, it does not generate an yield or conveys the rights of income, profits or future assets of a business. In other words, a meme coin is not in itself a security.”
The clarification comes after the rapid rise of such cryptocurrency after the election of President Donald Trump, as well as their clash in recent weeks. Also, another level in the new administration belt, which has promised to create clearer and perhaps more favorable regulatory conditions for the crypt industry, and do so rapidly.
“The latest statement of the SEC for Meme Coins is the clarity that the digital space of the assets has requested for years,” said Ishmael Green, a cryptocurrency lawyer and partner at Diaz Reus’s legal firm. “This will promote continuous investment in the US crypty space, as most of the meme coins launched in the last 12 months with multibillion dollar market hats have been released in Solana, an American Blockchain.”
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“[It] It also accompanies with the promise of the current administration for the cryptocurrencies to end unnecessary and non -sisorrous implementation actions that hinder innovation and investment, ”he added.
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Clarity can pave the way for both exchange operators to rank more meme coins without the risk of regulatory implementation.
In January, at the height of the meme mania driven by Trump, Coinbase General Director Brian Armstrong said “Given there [about 1 million] Signs per week being created now, and growing … evaluation of each one is no longer possible, “in a post on X.” And regulators need to understand that the application for approval for each is fully indisputable at this point, “he said.
The meme coins, of which there are thousands, sit at the most distant end of the risk spectrum. They are three to four times more actively marketed than Bitcoin and Eter, arranging for market lid, which makes them lucrative offers for market newcomers who think they may have lost the boat in Bitcoin. Historically, they have been a meter of retail and the appetite of danger in cryptocurrencies, though most market participants strongly warn against them.
Despite their purely speculative nature and lack of internal value, they are widely seen as a significant sector of the crypto market and an important part of the Internet culture that reflects the origin, culture and nature of the cryptic community.