“The language used here sets an extraordinarily dangerous precedent,” the LBRY team wrote on Monday after sharing the news. SECcrypto SEClawsuit
that LBRY sold an unregistered security that violates section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933. Furthermore, the SEC seeks injunctive relief from the alleged proceeds of LBRY’s LBC token.
Despite LBRY arguing that the blockchain token was not a security, but rather an essential component of the LBRY blockchain network, Judge Paul Barbadoro granted the SEC’s motion for summary judgment. The New Hampshire District Court’s approved summary judgment insists:Unlike a myriad of other crypto projects, LBRY did not have an initial coin offering , and LBRYthat the SEC’s decision and the language used in the summary judgment sets an “extraordinarily dangerous precedent.
The dangerous precedent means that the U.S. regulator could make “every cryptocurrency in the U.S. a security, including Ethereum,” LBRY added. The LBRY teamthat they plan to heal by licking their “wounds for a little bit,” but further added, “we’re not giving up.” The LBRY case has a lot of people discussing whether or not other decentralized crypto assets will be targeted by the U.S. regulator. During the second week of September, the chairman of the SEC, Gary Gensler,The regulator also remarked that out of “the nearly 10,000 tokens in the crypto market,” he believes “the vast majority are securities.” In mid-July, Gensler
that the SEC was looking at “tokens, the stablecoins, and the non-stablecoins” as far as regulatory clarity is concerned.
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