James Bachini

Regulation

  • Is My Token A Security? The Howey Test For Digital Assets

    Is My Token A Security? The Howey Test For Digital Assets

    The SEC & Securities Regulations The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that is responsible for regulating securities and protecting investors. In practice they have done more to protect Wall Steet financial institutions than they have ever done for individual investors. The SEC regulates securities through…

  • Synthetic Assets | A Regulatory Nightmare

    Synthetic Assets | A Regulatory Nightmare

    This article is derived from a chapter in the free eBook explaining DeFi technologies:DeFi Demystified | An Introduction To Decentralized Finance Synthetic assets are a form of derivative product in decentralised finance. Synths are created which follow the price of an underlying asset. For example sTSLA will follow the stock price of Tesla and can…