Texas Securities Board Targets Fraud Crypto Project Touting Ties With Russian Government
The Texas State Securities Board has stopped a decentralized lending pool from sales of securities, after the firm touted its ties with the Russian government. Travis J. Iles, the securities Commissioner of the Lone Star...
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Travis J. Iles, the securities Commissioner of the Lone Star State, has written an emergency cease and desist notice to immediately stop services linked to BigWhale.io, a staking & lending decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol based on Binance Smart Chain....
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