The SEC commissioner Hester Pierce requires the blockchain space and the regulators to operate on an expedited juridical framework for ICOs in the next three years.

During the current industry conference in Chicago, the SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce recommended a new regulatory framework for unqualified investors and ICO companies.

Present securities laws don’t provide various ICO startups and similar firms to obtain money from U.S. citizens. According to the law, almost any cryptocurrency, token, or coin is practically security. On Thursday, the SEC’s Hester Pierce attached a proposal to enlarge the definition of ”accredited investor” to enable more trading among ordinary Americans.

The plan initially went live on 18 December 2019, in Washington D.C. It is not in the ultimate version and must show whether digital assets fit into the securities definition. Over time, the properties of digital cash change, and Peirce believes the regulation must incorporate all the possible diversions.

The proposal comes after the SEC formally claimed that some of the digital assets have properties of securities. Traditional security investment is a precarious deal, with lots of underwater rocks and tricks. Nevertheless, the regulatory framework for ICO, IEO, and even STO companies is only a matter of time and development.

According to Peirce, she perceives the regulatory draft as the first sketch of several others, and asks for community help:

“I see this proposal as a path forward that achieves the objective of getting token purchasers the information they need, but it is also just a sketch – a work in progress – that requires productive engagement from the public.”

Therefore the proposal is not official. It must collect formal opinions from other SEC Commissioners, including Chairman Jay Clayton. The current draft requires that the blockchain firms should get a three years development term.

The aim is to create situations where tokens are “distributed to and freely tradable by potential users, programmers, and participants in the network.”

The SEC already deals with several ICO startup founders. These involve small-scale ICO scammers and the mastodons of the Internet market.

SEC Regulation Puts ICO Fraudsters to Prison

Yes, the SEC likes to double-check even people like Mark Zuckerberg or Pavel Durov. In the next three years, the market participants should settle on creating a central blockchain that will promote ICO’s. According to the plan, it is up to the blockchain startups and other business people to develop conventional accounting. It can appear as a usual database or a blockchain, but it must defend investors.

The ICO authors will have to issue their anti-fraud plan and understand the needs of their token buyers. Here, the money masters will enter data about fiduciary duties, its clarity, the source code, and quality. They will have to write long posts about the company’s inner workings, milestones, etc.