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by CryptoPunk 3190 days ago
>>That's by design. If there's equity or promise of profits, it automatically trigger the 'it's a security' lever.

That is not true. There are other components to the Howey Test besides expectation of profit. The DAO was one of the most security-like token issued so far, and the DAO investigative report went over how the SEC believed it met all the conditions for classification as a security. Securities laws might not apply to a great many other tokens.