
Mastering KYC ICO Compliance: Best Practices for 2024
KYC (Know Your Customer) in ICOs is vital for verifying investor identities, ensuring regulatory compliance, and fostering trust. This process prevents scams and illegal activities, bolstering the credibility and security of token sales. It involves collecting and verifying investor data, continuous monitoring, and aligning with AML (Anti-Money Laundering) regulations to deter illicit financial activities. Key components include biometric authentication, document verification, and leveraging blockchain technology. Selecting the right KYC provider—evaluating security, compliance, scalability, and user-friendliness—is crucial. Emerging technologies like AI and blockchain are enhancing KYC/AML processes, ensuring efficiency and adapting to evolving regulatory landscapes. Robust implementation of KYC safeguards ICOs, protects investors, and ensures the legitimacy of projects.

Token Warrant Primer: Token Warrants for Early-Stage Crypto Startups
Token Warrant Primer: A guide to understanding token warrants, empowering startups and investors to align on terms for future token issuance with clarity and fairness.

Offshore ICO Risks and Onshore Solutions with DUNA
Offshore ICOs face rising risks; new onshore frameworks like DUNA may offer legal certainty, liability limits, and regulatory clarity for U.S. token launches.

How Trump’s Pro-Crypto Shift and Key Appointments Are Reshaping U.S. Digital Assets
Trump’s pro-crypto policies, new SEC and AI-Crypto Czar appointments spark investor confidence, pushing Bitcoin beyond $100K and reshaping the market.

Navigating ICOs: Securities Law Implications for ICOS in 2025
Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) often face scrutiny under U.S. securities law, with the SEC using the Howey test to determine if digital assets qualify as securities. This blog explores key court decisions, the application of the Howey test, and what these rulings mean for ICO issuers and investors navigating regulatory landscapes.

Paul Atkins’ Appointment as SEC Chair: A New Era for 2025 ICOS?
Paul Atkins’ SEC appointment signals a shift toward crypto-friendly policies, emphasizing innovation, transparency, and balanced regulation for ICOs and digital assets.