1 year ago
Team members of the decentralized concern (DeFi) protocol BarnBridge are being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) successful the latest regulatory tussle faced by a crypto institution successful the country.
BarnBridge offers involvement complaint swaps that let for immoderate adaptable output offered by crypto platforms, specified arsenic Aave oregon Compound, to beryllium swapped to a fixed rate. It had conscionable implicit $1.2 cardinal locked tokens arsenic of Friday. At its highest the protocol held $500 cardinal successful users' assets.
“I americium letting you cognize that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Barnbridge DAO and individuals associated with the DAO,” wrote Douglas Park, duly elected ineligible counsel to Barnbridge DAO, successful a Discord connection connected Friday morning.
BarnBridge’s BOND tokens slumped implicit 10% pursuing the Discord connection posted by Park.
“Because the SEC’s probe is ongoing and non-public, I americium constricted successful the accusation that I volition stock publicly,” Park added.
Park said that existing liquidity pools connected BarnBridge should beryllium closed and that each enactment connected Barnbridge-related products should halt fixed the SEC actions. Individuals submitting enactment volition not beryllium compensated, helium added.
Further specifics of the probe person not been publically released.
Edited by Parikshit Mishra.
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