I believe most of ICOs are getting their threads hyped, even though it's against the rules. When I worked for one ICO, we had such offers regularly. Newbie activity costs the least, so this project probably didn't raise much money even if they are saying the opposite. As for English, I believe that projects can actually apply to SEC even if they are not registered in the US. After all, this is the most famous STO regulator in the world for now. The whole project doesn't look very nice to me, though, since it doesn't offer anything new.
The Russian article is pretty good in showing that the project is at least lying to people if not planning to dump everyone.
Not question the fact that they are bumping their thread. Thread bumping is an open secret on BTT. My worry comes from the fact that it's over two weeks since ICO ended and they're still bumping threads. To what end?
Add the amount they claimed to have raised and it becomes all the more worrisome that they need to bump their threads in the first place. Numerous ICOs have successfully raised a fraction of that without bumping. You don't raise over a hundred million without crossing a few oceans and knowing some highly-placed individuals. So why bump - using accounts that can barely string two words together. I'd assume as a financial company based in NYC, quality control will be of paramount importance in whatever service they choose to engage - including bumps and writers.
Apparently, not the case here. Not only are they shitposting, but their articles are also poorly written too. Makes you wondered what they submitted to the "SEC" or pitched to "VCs". To cap it off, they are security token, meaning no good listing anytime soon (they can always pin that on the SEC conveniently), or (and based on their "quality control" or lack of) get listed on some shit exchange and keep stumbling all over their roadmap.
Interesting times.