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Ripple Beats the SEC
The crypto industry needed a win. And it got one. A federal judge ruled Thursday that coins sold programmatically (typically on exchanges) or awarded as part of compensation packages were NOT unregistered securities. And that only coins sold directly to institutional investors constituted registered securities. “Therefore, having considered the economic reality and totality of circumstances, the Court concludes that Ripple’s…
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Be Cautious in Unpredictable Crypto Markets
The crypto markets have entered a highly unpredictable phase. There are so many contradictory market forces in play that it’s hard to make any short-term market predictions. The SEC is going after Coinbase. Coinbase is fighting back. Blackrock (among others) applied for a bitcoin spot ETF (with bitcoin as the underlying asset). The SEC said no in a matter of…
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New Pick: Growth Is Brewing for This Small American Business
This week, I’m making a different kind of investment recommendation — one that I think you’ll really like. For the past couple of years, I’ve been looking into investing in small businesses. Small businesses account for about 44% of U.S. GDP. That’s $10.3 trillion in economic activity. But until recently, most investors were locked out of effectively investing in small…
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Crypto Insider: Overcoming Crypto Skepticism
It’s a tale as old as time. As one generation grows older, the next generation becomes more independent. The younger generation creates or popularizes new forms of technology, art, and culture, while the older generation tends to reject them — usually because the older generation doesn’t understand them. How many generations of parents have been critical of or bewildered by…
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Crypto Monitor: The SEC’s Inconsistent Investor Protections
It’s been a rough week. The SEC sued Coinbase and Binance. And a lot of coins have been called out by name in those lawsuits. The SEC declared that Solana, Cardano, Cosmos, Polygon, COTI, Decentraland, Algorand, Filecoin, The Sandbox, Axie Infinity, Chiliz, Flow, Internet Computer Protocol, NEAR Protocol, Voyager Token, Dash, and Nexo are all unregistered securities. Given that, we’re…
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The SEC Can’t Kill Crypto
We’re entering a new phase in the development of the crypto ecosystem. The era of crypto exchanges and crypto businesses operating without any regulatory oversight are coming to an end. The European Parliament voted 517-38 in April on a comprehensive package of new rules aimed at regulating the crypto industry. The rules, on balance, appear to be fair to investors,…
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Cityzenith Shuttered, but Investors Still Have Hope
Many First Stage Investor members have written in to ask us about Cityzenith closing its business. We recommended Cityzenith as an investment opportunity in September 2020. And like you, we’re disappointed that Cityzenith closed. We were hoping for big things. I reached out this week to Cityzenith founder and CEO Michael Jansen to see if we could have a quick…
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Six Coins You Need to Sell
It’s been a week. On Monday, the SEC sued Binance, saying the crypto exchange had shown “blatant disregard of the federal securities laws.” And on Tuesday, the SEC sued Coinbase for acting “as an exchange, a broker, and a clearing agency, without registering as an exchange, broker, or clearing agency” and selling “without registering its offers and sales.” The SEC…
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Crypto Monitor: A Victory for Crypto in China and Hong Kong
China has a complicated relationship with crypto. The Chinese government continues to promote the use and development of blockchain, but crypto trading is still banned in mainland China. Recently, the crypto community had some hope that China may change its tune on crypto. The Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission published a 100-plus-page paper last week about the next generation…
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New Pick: A Hidden Treasure in the Plant-Based Meat Market
Editor’s Note: This recommendation was co-authored by KingsCrowd Investment Research Manager Olivia Strobl. Mmmm, pizza. Much like Homer Simpson, I was born eating pizza. I’m also a vegetarian who dabbles in veganism. So when it comes to plant-based pizzas and meat, I’m a serious connoisseur. I also follow the plant-based food business closely. It directly impacts what I eat, so…
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Going Down a Collectibles Rabbit Hole
There’s a group of about 10 people that I’ve been friends with since 1995. We were all young professionals back then, starting out in our first jobs and trying to navigate life as best we could. The fact that we’ve all stayed in touch and remained friends for this long is remarkable. The fact that our text chain is very…
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Get Your Investing Mojo Back
Crypto Market Musings Bitcoin is trading around $27,000 as of this writing and is down about 6.5% over the last seven days. Ethereum is trading around $1,800 and is down about 4.5% over the same time period. Welcome to crypto allergy season. Some weeks will be good. Some weeks will be sneeze central. And some weeks will make your eyes…
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New Pick: A Biotech Startup on the Verge of Curing Cancer
Cancer sucks. Everyone knows someone who has been affected by this deadly disease. And while treatment has come a long way, there is still no cure. The disease kills more than 600,000 people in the United States every year. Billions of dollars have been poured into cancer drug development for decades… but to no avail. Oncolyze, the anti-cancer biotech startup…
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Crypto Insider: Coinbase Sues the SEC
Crypto regulations are still a confusing mess. And now Coinbase is suing the SEC to try to force regulators to choose a path forward. In the lawsuit, Coinbase asks that the SEC be forced to publicly share its answer to a petition Coinbase filed in July 2022. The petition asked whether the SEC would allow the crypto industry to be…
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Monogram Orthopaedics Announces an IPO
Great news. Monogram Orthopaedics is going public on May 18! The company is going to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker MGRM. The company will go public at $7.25 per share. But don’t worry if this price seems low. Monogram recently completed a two-for-one stock split. So the split-adjusted stock price is actually $14.50, valuing the company at $246…
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New Pick: An Ethereum Scaling Solution With Impressive Early Growth
I don’t think we’re in a crypto bull market yet. There’s too much near-term regulatory uncertainty with the SEC going after Coinbase and Bittrex and declaring Algorand (ALGO), Dash (DASH), OmiseGO (OMG), and others securities. That combined with economic uncertainty and inflation concerns means there is still significant downward pressure in the markets. I do think the bear market is…