Investors’ protection through SEC’s FinHub establishment to regulate ICOs – CEO of Republic.co

The SEC’s regulation facilitates capital formation, which assists entrepreneurs launch businesses and companies’ prosperity. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cites that all Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) should be regulated as securities but when asked if they will ban or regulate the market, an SEC commissioner made it clear he was not suggesting either option. Instead, the focus is on protecting investors from fraudulent investments.

In this perspective, the US SEC has made an announcement that the establishment of FinHub in an effort to foster greater communication and understanding with emerging technology start-ups, such as blockchain companies going through ICOs. While Ken Nguyen, CEO of Angel List-backed Republic, believes that this move will bring greater clarity in what constitutes in as a compliant ICO without compromising investor protection.Republic has so far been the only compliant way for retail non-accredited investors to back and invest in the blockchain projects that they love. 

Kendrick Nguyen, CEO of Republicclarified by stating that "the SEC’s efforts to establish a formal channel of communications is appreciated with the market participants operating at the forefront of financial technology. Open dialogues between regulators and the private sector are necessary to ensure that existing legal frameworks can adapt to technological changes without compromising investor protection or unduly interfering with the free market.

We’ve been anticipating this move from the SEC to establish something like FinHub for a while. The mass adoption of blockchain by various institutions has only expedited this move”, hecommented.

As a result, we foresee that more blockchain projects will use crowdfunding to raise capital, seeing as Reg CF is the only compliant way for blockchain companies to allocate funds from retail investors. With regulatory support, we see more companies raising capital this way in the near future.

This open dialogue should also encourage the SEC to provide more clarity to the blockchain industry more quickly. It will also provide companies with the necessary guidelines on all securities exemptions and existing legal frameworks.

We look forward to actively engage with the SEC and the FinHub in order to bring the best blockchain investment opportunities to retail investors in a compliant way, headded.

While Bitcoin’s price has been oscillating between 6k to 7.5k amid SEC's stringent regulation on ETFs. Regulatory framework in the crypto avenue has been lingering from a long time ago, from the SEC deciding Ethereum is not a security to how it goes after ICOs, it’s a legal grey area that will take many months (and years) to resolve. Market manipulation, tech entrepreneurs getting into Bitcoin early, and the impact Bitcoin futures had on the market, it would take a lot to see a huge rebound in Bitcoin in 2018.

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