Ted Livingston, CEO of Kik and the founder of the Kin Foundation, and Patrick Gibbs, partner at Cooley, announce the formation of the $5 million DefendCrypto.org fund at Coinbase Custody to fight the SEC in court. Kik and Kin are hoping that a lawsuit would eventually result in a new Howey test for crypto tokens, to determine which ones are a security. In this episode, they explain has happened so far between them and the SEC to bring them to this point and what their main arguments are. Plus they defend themselves against some of the evidence against their case and we discuss what they can expect going forward.

Read the full show notes on Forbes.com: http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2019/05/28/kin-launches-5-million-defendcrypto-fund-to-take-on-the-sec/

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Episode links:

DefendCrypto: https://www.defendcrypto.org

Kik: https://www.kik.com

Kin: https://www.kin.org

Ted Livingston: https://twitter.com/ted_livingston

Patrick Gibbs of Cooley: https://www.cooley.com/people/patrick-gibbs

Kik’s Wells response: https://www.kin.org/wells_response.pdf

Kin white paper: https://www.kin.org/static/files/Kin_Whitepaper_V1_English.pdf

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