Employees of Coinbase Global Inc, the greatest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, watch as their listing is shown on the Nasdaq MarketSite jumbotron at Times Square in New York, April 14, 2021.
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Crypto exchange Coinbase submitted fit versus the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, asking that the regulator be required to openly share its response to a months-old petition on whether it would enable the crypto market to be managed utilizing existing SEC structures.
The July 2022 petition asked that the SEC “propose and adopt rules to govern the regulation of securities that are offered and traded via digitally native methods,” describing digital possessions like cryptocurrencies.
The SEC did not provide a particular public action to Coinbase’s petition, however in current months has actually strongly increase enforcement actions and cautions versus crypto exchanges, consisting of Coinbase.
“From the SEC’s public statements and enforcement activity in the crypto industry, it seems like the SEC has already made up its mind to deny our petition. But they haven’t told the public yet. So the action Coinbase filed today simply asks the court to ask the SEC to share its decision,” Coinbase primary legal officer Paul Grewal stated in an article.
Since January, the SEC has actually done something about it versus crypto exchanges Bittrex & & Gemini, crypto lending institution Genesis, and a variety of private stars implicated of controling crypto possessions, consisting of crypto business owner Justin Sun and disgraced Terraform Labs creator Do Kwon.
The relocation is Coinbase’s very first official salvo versus the regulator, a little over a month after it was alerted by the SEC of pending legal action through a Wells notification.
“Coinbase does not take any litigation lightly, especially when it relates to one of our regulators. Regulatory clarity is overdue for our industry,” Grewal stated in the post. “Yet Coinbase and other crypto companies are facing potential regulatory enforcement actions from the SEC, even though we have not been told how the SEC believes the law applies to our business.”
The SEC did not instantly return an ask for remark.
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