Eleanor Terret Attacks SEC’s Classification of Filecoin as Security
- Eleanor Terret criticized the SEC’s recent classification of Grayscale’s Filecoin as a security.
- SEC asked Grayscale to withdraw its application for a Filecoin Trust, claiming that FIL is a security.
- Terret tweeted that the SEC was silent when it investigated Filecoin five years before
Crypto journalist Eleanor Terret lambasted the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its recent classification of Grayscale’s Filecoin as a security. The journalist asserted that the same regulatory agency was silent when it investigated the same product five years ago.
On May 17, the leading cryptocurrency asset management Grayscale announced that the SEC has ordered the firm to withdraw its application for a Filecoin Trust, on account of the regulator’s view that “the Trust’s underlying asset, FIL, meets the definition of a security under federal securities law”.
Subsequent to the announcement, Terret shared a Twitter post, commenting on the unreasonable move of the commission:
NEW: @Grayscale says the @SECGov has asked it to withdraw an application to launch a $FIL Trust product on the grounds that it might meet the definition of an investment co…
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Eleanor Terret Attacks SEC’s Classification of Filecoin as Security
- Eleanor Terret criticized the SEC’s recent classification of Grayscale’s Filecoin as a security.
- SEC asked Grayscale to withdraw its application for a Filecoin Trust, claiming that FIL is a security.
- Terret tweeted that the SEC was silent when it investigated Filecoin five years before
Crypto journalist Eleanor Terret lambasted the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its recent classification of Grayscale’s Filecoin as a security. The journalist asserted that the same regulatory agency was silent when it investigated the same product five years ago.
On May 17, the leading cryptocurrency asset management Grayscale announced that the SEC has ordered the firm to withdraw its application for a Filecoin Trust, on account of the regulator’s view that “the Trust’s underlying asset, FIL, meets the definition of a security under federal securities law”.
Subsequent to the announcement, Terret shared a Twitter post, commenting on the unreasonable move of the commission:
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