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Memecoins fail the Howey test, so they are not securities. App coins pass the Howey test, so they are securities. It's not complicated.





> Memecoins fail the Howey test

Surely this would depend on use. There's nothing essentially different about memecoins that would imply a distinct outcome from say bitcoin. Of all the ways you could use this test, differentiating between "memecoins" and "legitcoins" seems like the worst possible scenario: there isn't actually any qualitative difference to find in the first place. Hence, why this will eventually fall on courts to figure out.

I've never even heard of the term "app coin" before but surely it's just yet another crypto token with similar constraints and lack of obvious use.


You haven't defined what a memecoin is though, so I'm not sure how that helps.

Memecoin = something that looks like a cryptocurrency when squinting but fails the Howey test



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