{"id":112172,"date":"2019-08-20T17:13:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T00:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=112172"},"modified":"2019-10-20T23:22:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T23:22:14","slug":"sec-charges-ico-rating-shilling-crypto-projects-disclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/sec-charges-ico-rating-shilling-crypto-projects-disclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC charges ICO Rating for shilling crypto projects without disclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SEC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press-release\/2019-157\">penalized<\/a> Russia-based ICO Rating for failing to disclose it was being paid to shill cryptocurrency projects. The enforcement action comes as the Commission continues to crack down on firms that tout <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/sec-chairman-clarifies-securities-treatment-around-bitcoin-ethereum-and-cryptocurrency-broadly\/\">crypto securities<\/a>\u00a0without disclosures.<\/p>\n<p>ICO Rating is one of several mostly Russian-run crypto rating agencies, behind ICOBench and ICOmarks. The firm advertises itself as an \u201cindependent\u201d rating and research service on a mission to \u201chelp the market achieve the necessary standards of quality, transparency, and reliability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, it seems ICO Rating failed to adhere to its own mission statement. The SEC found that the agency covertly accepted payments to shill cryptocurrency securities that were supposedly being evaluated \u2018independently.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>ICO Rating violated the anti-touting provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 because it \u201cfailed to disclose that it was paid by certain issuers whose ICO offerings it rated,\u201d said the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>ICO Rating agreed to pay disgorgement and prejudgement interest of 107,000 and civil penalties of $162,000, without admitting or denying the SEC\u2019s findings, for a total of $269,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe securities laws require promoters, including both people and entities, to disclose compensation they receive for touting investments so that potential investors are aware they are viewing a paid promotional item,\u201d said Melissa Hodgman, associate director of the Commission\u2019s enforcement division.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is certainly not the first (or last) time crypto-related businesses were found promoting coins without disclosure. In October 2018, BreakerMag <a href=\"https:\/\/breakermag.com\/we-asked-crypto-news-outlets-if-theyd-take-money-to-cover-a-project-more-than-half-said-yes\/\">found<\/a> that half of crypto news outlets would, for a fee, publish an advertisement without disclosing they were being paid\u2014including larger publications such as Bitcoinist and NewsBTC.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrities have also been found to endorse crypto-based securities without disclosure. Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled were <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/floyd-mayweather-and-dj-khaled-sued-for-involvement-in-centra-ico-scam\/\">penalized<\/a> by the SEC for accepting payments to shill crypto projects without informing people of receiving payment. <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/people\/john-mcafee\/\">John McAfee<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/6507\/john-mcafee-crypto-promotions-business\">notorious<\/a> for similar behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, as the Securities Exchange Commission cleans up the crypto-sphere people can be more confident in the information they read. But, we wouldn\u2019t count on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SEC penalized Russia-based ICO Rating for failing to disclose it was being paid to shill cryptocurrency projects. The enforcement action comes as the Commission continues to crack down on firms that tout crypto securities\u00a0without disclosures. ICO Rating is one of several mostly Russian-run crypto rating agencies, behind ICOBench and ICOmarks. The firm advertises itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":47260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"prediction_market_topic":[],"post_folder":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.9 (Yoast SEO v21.9.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SEC charges ICO Rating for shilling crypto projects without disclosure<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The SEC penalized Russia-based ICO Rating for failing to disclose it was being paid to shill cryptocurrency projects. 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