House Bill Shows Challenge of Regulating Crypto Without Giving Tradfi a Free Pass
The so-called Howey Test, which became a standard way of determining what assets are securities after the 1946 Supreme Court case SEC v. Howey Co., provides that an investment contract is a security if it is an investment of money in a common enterprise with the expectation of profit to be derived…
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