More Enforcement Action Taken By The SEC On Crypto Sales

On January 30, 2018, dissatisfied crypto token purchasers filed a class action lawsuit against Paragon Coin, Inc. ("Paragon") and founders Jessica VerSteeg and Egor Lavrov, alleging that the Paragon initial coin offering ("ICO") violated the federal securities laws.¹  This lawsuit follows those filed by plaintiffs against Centra, Tezos, ATBCoin, BitConnect, and Xunlei in connection with their ICOs in recent months.  One of the more high profile class action defendants is BitConnect, which is defending two class action lawsuits alleging that it sold unregistered securities and operated a Ponzi scheme.²  BitConnect allegedly led purchasers to believe that they would receive a 3,000% return on their investment over the course of a year.