United States Regulatory Uncertainty Continues to Prevent American Companies With Clear Token Utilities From Harnessing Levolution's Technology
The Rescue Token Would Have Provided a Mechanism for Restaurants to Survive Through COVID-19 by Sourcing Immediate Cashflow From Loyal Customers
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, May 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- For many years, while much of the world took a different stance on the revolutionary fundraising mechanism that is tokenization, many of the lead regulators in the United States maintained that there was no such thing as a utility token and that all tokens were securities. While the Levolution platform will revolutionize token offerings for companies located and transacting business outside of the United States, the team remained hopeful that American companies would be able to harness the platform's ingenuity in the future.
Finally, in 2019 the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") issued two responses not recommending enforcement action to the Commission. At last, it seemed as if the United States would align its view with both logic and international consensus. However, a new Miami, Florida-based project seeking, but unable, to utilize the Levolution platform for altruistic purposes has brought to light how impractical the regulatory framework and process remains.
The Rescue Token team, confronted with the COVID-19 pandemic, sought to address the cash flow issue faced by restaurants during the quarantine by allowing loyal customers of those restaurants to buy tokens, resulting in immediate cash flow to the restaurants. Aside from a small and transparent portion of the token purchase intended to cover the company's administrative and operating expenses, almost all of the funds would go immediately to the restaurant with which they could pay expenses. The token purchaser would receive credit to the restaurant, to be used immediately if the restaurant was open for takeout during the quarantine or immediately upon opening after the quarantine, all while being able to help one of their favorite restaurants in an industry that is suffering extraordinarily.
While the team thought that a clear utility was present in line with the SEC's no action recommendations, as did external lawyers with which the team consulted, everyone agreed that a letter to the SEC and a legal opinion was prudent. First, time was of the essence given the project's nature, so a missed opportunity arose due to the timing inherent in the legal obstacles even though the technology was developed. Next, outside counsel estimated a legal budget as much as $50,000.00 due to the uncertainty inherent in the regulation; a number that ultimately made this project infeasible due to budget constraints.
The Rescue Token project hopes to repurpose the technology they developed, but which can not yet be used. They, along with Levolution, hope that this missed opportunity will shed light on this issue and spur the development of a clearer American regulatory framework so that companies in the United States can offer true utility tokens without having to incur unnecessarily burdensome legal fees for work bearing uncertain probabilities of success.
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The Rescue Token Would Have Provided a Mechanism for Restaurants to Survive Through COVID-19
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