{"id":58483,"date":"2022-03-03T13:18:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=58483"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:01:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:01:28","slug":"bloomberg-sec-begins-scrutiny-of-nft-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bloomberg-sec-begins-scrutiny-of-nft-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg: SEC begins scrutiny of NFT regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has begun work on determining whether NFTs qualify as securities and applying the relevant laws. Bloomberg reported, citing informed sources.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, agency staff have sent requests to token creators and various crypto platforms where their trading is organized, seeking additional information.<\/p>\n<p>The focus is on whether such assets are used to raise money, rather than as traditional securities. The emphasis is on fractional NFTs.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, SEC commissioner Hester Peirce <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sec-commissioner-peirce-nft-sales-may-violate-the-law\">warned<\/a> that such tokens and the index baskets composed of them could be construed as investment contracts under U.S. securities laws.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Gary Gensler, the head of the Commission, said that <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/gary-gensler-regulation-is-necessary-for-the-survival-of-cryptocurrencies\">regulation is necessary for cryptocurrencies to survive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Subscribe to the ForkLog channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> YouTube<\/a>! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has begun work on determining whether NFTs qualify as securities and applying the relevant laws. Bloomberg reported, citing informed sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1213,36,128],"class_list":["post-58483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","tag-regulation","tag-sec"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58485,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58483\/revisions\/58485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}