On July 25, 2017, the SEC issued a press release https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-131 announcing the conclusion of an investigative report into whether offerings of digital assets by “virtual” organizations are securities and therefore subject to the federal securities laws.  In its investigative report https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf the SEC concluded that “Initial Coin Offerings”, “Token Sales” and similar offerings using distributed ledger or block chain technology are securities and are subject to regulation as such.

NEW YORK, June 25, 2017 Bison Capital Acquisition Corp. ("Bison" or the "Company"), a company formed for the purpose of entering into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities, announced the closing of its initial public offering (the “IPO”) of 5,250,000 units at $10.00 per unit, raising gross proceeds of $52,500,000 on June 23, 2017.  Each unit issued in the initial public offering consists of one ordinary share, one right to receive one-tenth of an ordinary share on the consummation of an initial business combination, and one warrant to acquire one-half of one ordinary share at $11.50 per full share. The units commenced trading on June 20, 2017 on The NASDAQ Capital Market.