SEC Staff Say They Will Not Recommend Enforcement Over Canton Coin Minting in a November 3 No-Action Letter

The US Securities and Exchange Commission said in a letter dated November 3 that it would not recommend enforcement action over the minting of Canton Coin, the token of the institutional Canton network, under the setup described, Crypto Insiders reported. The letter is a no-action letter from the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance.

According to the report, the division treats Canton Coin as a “digital commodity” rather than a security that has to be registered in advance. That wording comes from an embedded X post by MSB Intel summarizing the division’s position, not from a direct SEC quote. The reasoning is that the coin’s value depends on network use and on supply and demand, and that buyers do not rely on the efforts of a central party for profit. Validators and application providers receive the coin automatically as compensation.

Canton mainly serves financial institutions that process shares, bonds and other assets digitally, so the letter is relevant to institutional tokenization.

Crypto Insiders stressed the limits. The letter applies only while the described facts remain materially unchanged. It is not a court ruling, not a general rule for all cryptocurrencies, and gives no price guarantee or investor protection. Still, it adds to a pattern of SEC staff guidance that clarifies when a network token falls outside securities registration, a pattern that continued this week with staff updates to the agency’s crypto FAQ.

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• Crypto Insiders: SEC geeft cryptomunt voor financiële sector ruimte buiten effectenregels