SEC Alert! SEC charges a self-described “market making” firm, for their roles in effectuating the unregistered offers and sales of crypto asset securities and for perpetrating a scheme to manipulate the trading volume and price of those securities.
Source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-175
The SEC’s complaint alleges that starting in January 2018, Kane and Hydrogen, a New York-based financial technology company, created its Hydro token and then publicly distributed the token through various methods: an “airdrop,” which is essentially giving away Hydro to the