
SEC clarifies: maintaining a live crypto network is not 'managerial efforts' under Howey
- —Maintaining a functional network does not constitute essential managerial efforts under Howey
- —A buyback of a non-security token on a functional network is not itself a promise of managerial efforts
- —Before functionality, marketing a buyback as a source of yield changes the analysis
- —Staking receipt tokens cannot add new economic rights or transfer the deposited asset to the issuer
Why it matters: The guidance lowers regulatory risk for teams continuing to develop live networks and clarifies the treatment of buybacks and staking receipts.
Source: Crypto News Flash