Promising returns and using investor funds for market manipulation a very serious SEC violation.
Russia don't care about SEC!
No. But US exchanges like Poloniex do.
I'm not an attorney and neither are most on here. If you're really that curious, hit the Waves team on slack.
There's no question that using investor funds to manipulate markets is illegal. So unless the claims of market manipulation are untrue, there's nothing to ask.
setting up a buyback (fully disclosed) is not market manipulation.
I'm talking about the buy walls.
so am I. Sasha stated that the waves team would set up buywalls for investors to sell if when the market openned up they felt like they would rather not be invested.
Exactly. What he said he was going to do, set up buy walls to manipulate the price for investors, is HIGHLY illegal. It's securities fraud.