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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