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The majority of those ICOs are not available to us citizens though. Can you name a recent ICO that allowed non-accredited us investors to participate?

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> Switzerland-based Tezos said it did not specifically exclude investors from any country from participating.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/18/hot-digital-currency-trend-m...

This ico happened before the sec bulletin was issued:

https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/ib_co...

Do you have any more recent examples?

I haven't been following closely, recently, but literally the first one I checked has no check on residency [0], which is enough to bring it under SEC jurisdiction if the sale goes over other thresholds.[1]

Sales before and after the bulletin are subject to the same laws.

[0] https://etherparty.io/ico/contribute

[1] https://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/internatl/foreign-priv...

There were lots of disclaimers saying:

>"Every potential participant in the fundraiser is responsible for determining the legality of participation within their jurisdiction."

It was totally legal for US residents to participate, as far as I know. I believe almost all the securities-law obligations resulting from the sale are on Tezos. (Not a lawyer.) The only obligation on buyers might be that they can't resell it without being guilty of selling an unregistered security themselves.

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