I am curious, if the SEC investigated and issued a report on DAO...why not investigate the Ethereum Foundation/Blockchain itself for the ICO of Ether? I'd like to see the SEC issue a written finding on the factual distinction and legal analysis how one is a security and the other is not, it may be as simple as the way the DAO tokens were marketed vs how the Ether ICO token was marketed.
The FileCoin ICO will be the first CoinList ICO, seeing as it was set for 2 days from now I wonder if it will be effected. All the major crowdfunding websites seem to offer equity funding options now, and I'm curious about how they pull that off legally, but if they do, I imagine CoinList will jump through the hoops so FileCoin is compliant.
In my limited and non-lawyer understanding, that's not the SEC's modus operandi for investigations like this.
They want to leave themselves room to study the market and issue definitive guidance later. Also, these investigations cost time and money. So to discourage bad actors, they go after the most obvious offenders but it's not really in their best interest to present a positive counterpoint.
The FileCoin ICO will be the first CoinList ICO, seeing as it was set for 2 days from now I wonder if it will be effected. All the major crowdfunding websites seem to offer equity funding options now, and I'm curious about how they pull that off legally, but if they do, I imagine CoinList will jump through the hoops so FileCoin is compliant.