Citing regulatory considerations, Berlin-based safety token startup Neufund has introduced plans to freeze its fundraising campaigns and sideline f
Citing regulatory considerations, Berlin-based safety token startup Neufund has introduced plans to freeze its fundraising campaigns and sideline future tokenized fairness choices.
“Many European international locations had aspirations to change into a blockchain-friendly hub … [T]he authorities have stifled this plan, blocking the innovation in its tracks,” the agency wrote in a weblog submit Monday.
Launched in 2016, Nefund helped allocate some $19 million in capital by means of novel fairness and safety token choices (STOs), together with a blockchain-based preliminary public providing in 2019. The agency claims to have some 11,000 buyers throughout 123 international locations.
In an announcement, Neufund CEO and co-founder Zoe Adamovicz stated the safety token mission couldn’t proceed to function in a regulatory gray space. No authorized motion was ever taken towards the startup, but requests for steerage weren’t answered because of “concern of latest applied sciences,” she stated.
“The issue is that no person desires to take the duty for neither letting innovation occur, nor for banning it,” Adamovicz added in an e mail to CoinDesk, inserting the blame squarely on the ft of Germany’s Federal Monetary Supervisory Authority (BaFin). “We have been neither allowed, nor not allowed. BaFin’s default reply is to draw back from threat and duty.”
BaFin didn’t reply to CoinDesk’s questions by press time.
Adamovicz stated the agency will transition to a yet-unannounced mission. The present Neufund platform might be maintained together with all fairness tokens, wallets and post-investment actions, a weblog states.
Kyle Sonlin, CEO of consulting agency Safety Token Market, informed CoinDesk that allocating capital with a token providing requires “completely different monetary gamers to behave in sync.” His agency has seen an upsurge in requests because of compliance requests, he stated.
“To get an issuer to the end line, it takes extra cooperation than simply offering one piece of the puzzle,” Sonlin stated.
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