Kik is hoping to go to trial in the ongoing legal fight with the SEC over its 2017 kin token sale.
Tel Aviv is a hotspot for crypto development. ZenGo CEO Ouriel Ohayon puts us on the ground there.
Kik has hit a brick wall with its ambitious "void for vagueness" defense in a case brought by the SEC over its $100 million initial coin offering.
Kik wants to depose top SEC officials, and expose that they were making it up as they went. But the SEC is having none of it.
Kik has sold its messaging business to a holding company called MediaLab but plans to continue enabling Kin on the platform
This article has been updated to rectify inaccuracies in our original reporting.
In a company blog post, Livingston said the ongoing dispute with the SEC has forced Kik to close its doors.
Kik CEO Ted Livingston discussed his company's legal fight with the SEC on CoinDesk Live last week.
After rocky interactions with the SEC, Kik CEO Ted Livingston will join us on CoinDesk LIVE.
Kik claims the SEC took comments out of context and manipulated facts in its suit alleging the firm’s token sale violated securities laws.
Robert A. Cohen pursued actions against a number ICOs and crypto exchange platforms as Cyber Unit chief. He will resign in August.
The Blockchain Association will now oversee Kik's "Defend Crypto" campaign, with the added goal of helping other startups fight legal cases.
The SEC's complaint against Kik, after it raised $100 million in an ICO, seemed pretty brutal, but not so fast, we're only hearing one side of the story. Watch more here as three lawyers discuss the case, its merits and its potential impacts for the crypto industry as a whole.
The SEC seems to have a strong case on the facts in its complaint against Kik and its 2017 token sale, according to legal experts.
In a complaint filed Tuesday, the SEC laid out where Kik allegedly ran afoul of U.S. securities law with its $98 million ICO in 2017. It also revealed a lot more.