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Chia CEO Faults Gary Gensler’s Blanket Crypto Classification
Chia CEO Gene Hoffman has faulted the classification of all cryptocurrencies, except Bitcoin, as securities by Gary Gensler, Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the United States....
Saylor Claims Everything But BTC Is Security; Deaton Reacts
Founder of Crypto Law John E Deaton takes to Twitter to challenge Founder of MicroStrategy Michael Saylor on his opinion. Saylor states that there is a general consensus in the...
Grayscale CEO Addresses SEC as Arbitrary on its Denial of Spot ETF
Michael Sonnenshein, the CEO of the American digital currency asset management company, Grayscale Investments, commented that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) acted “arbitrarily”, referring to its rejection of Grayscale’s...
SEC vs XRP: Anti-graft Agency Supports Motion to Unseal Hinman Docs
The US whistleblower and anti-corruption watchdog, Empower Oversight, complained that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has repeatedly denied transparency organizations access to information of public interest, especially regarding the...
SEC’s Actions Cause Fear in Crypto Ecosystem: Polygon’s Rebecca
Polygon Chief Policy Officer (CPO) Rebecca Rettig and the Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of Coinbase, Paul Grewal recently sat down in a podcast with crypto journalist Laura Shin to address...
Coinbase’s Quarterly Net Revenue Surpasses Analyst Predictions
According to Coinbase’s quarterly report, the firm’s net revenue in 2022 was $605 million, up 5% from $590 million in the previous quarter and substantially exceeding analyst estimates of $588...
SEC Chair Criticized Over Association With Fund Managers
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has publicized the September 2022 edition of its chair, Gary Gensler’s, calendar. A segment of the public criticized aspects of the schedule, accusing...
SEC Lost 4 Out of 5 Cases Thanks to Courage of a few: Stuart Alderoty
Earlier today, defense lawyer James K. Filan and Ripple’s General Counsel Stuart Alderoty both commented on what they call the “losing streak of the SEC.” Alderoty detailed in this Twitter...
SEC Doesn’t Regulate Crypto Directly, but Indirectly; Says Levine
Matt Levine, the Bloomberg Opinion Columnist, published an article on February 7, analyzing the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) crypto regulatory policies. Notably, the Chinese reporter Colin Wu, on his official...
The US SEC Seeks to Expand Categorization of Securities: Experts
John Deaton, the founder of Crypto-Law.us, believes that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pursuing theories that would expand the definition of what constitutes a security. He...
Crypto lawyer: It’s Really Hard to Navigate without Any Clear Rules
In a recent interview, crypto lawyer Mike Selig argued that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would find it challenging to regulate crypto without clear rules. Selig suggested that...
PCAOB Receives Pressure to Act as Crypto Firms’ Audit Supervisor
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is facing pressure to act as the supervisor for auditing cryptocurrency firms. This call comes at a time when most cryptocurrency businesses are...
Gensler In Support Of SEC’s Latest Lawsuit Against Terraform Labs
Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairperson Gary Gensler commends the SEC’s recent lawsuit. The SEC charged Singapore-based Terraform Labs PTE Ltd and South Korean National Do Hyeong Kwon with defrauding investors...
Terraform Manipulates: SEC Charges Do Kwon’s Company for Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged the Singapore-based blockchain protocol and payment platform Terraform Labs and its co-founder, the besieged Do Kwon, with “orchestrating a multi-billion dollar crypto asset...
SEC vs. XRP: Layton Files Motion for Access to Hinman’s Speech Documents
As the battle between SEC vs XRP continues, the Senior Vice President of Strand Consult, Rosalyn Layton, filed a motion to intervene in the case. Layton petitioned the Court asking...
Charles Hoskinson Says Cardano Won’t Be Affected By Staking Ban
Charles Hoskinson, the man behind Cardano, took to Twitter earlier today to address Kraken’s $30 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently. The crypto exchange had to...
South Korean Regulators Keeping Eye On Ripple Vs SEC Lawsuit
The Financial Supervisory Service in South Korea is keenly following the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) action in the Ripple lawsuit. Local media sites claimed that the FSS would...
Blockchain Association Files Amicus Brief in Insider trading Case
The Blockchain Association previously stated that it had submitted an amicus brief in the complaint that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has brought against three persons for...
Expect More Regulatory Actions in Coming Weeks, Warns Policy Expert
Director of Government Relations at Blockchain Association Ron Hammond took to Twitter to express his displeasure at the latest regulatory events in the crypto space. “It may be Valentine’s Day...
“Oranges Are Becoming SEC’s Target,” Tweets Crypto Influencer
Crypto influencer Ben Armstrong takes a jab at the SEC’s recent actions in his latest tweet. In particular, he is citing SEC’s lawsuit against Binance stablecoin BUSD. Wrapping his discontent...
Ripple General Counsel Slams SEC Chief Over Anti-Crypto Stance
Ripple’s chief legal officer, Stuart Alderoty, recently slammed Gary Gensler, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman, suggesting that Gensler may be a problem for Vice President Joe...
SEC Orders to End Issuance of BUSD: Crypto Community Shudders
According to recent expositions, the non-adhesive crypto regulations administered by the US authorities had heavily impacted the digital sector. In specific, the SEC-Paxos Lawsuit pushed the community to be immersed...
Armstrong Responds to Grewal’s Comment: SEC Settles Kraken Case
Brian Armstrong, the co-founder, and CEO of Coinbase Global Inc, the American-based publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange tweeted in response to the comment of the company’s Chief Legal Officer, Paul Grewal,...
U.S. Parliament Summons SEC Chair Over Role in FTX Investigation
The U.S. Parliament has issued an ultimatum to Gary Gensler, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), asking him to provide information concerning the commission’s investigation of FTX. Gensler...
Hoskinson Sides with SEC: ‘ETH Staking Looks Like Regulated Products’
Charles Hoskinson, the Cardano network founder, reinforces his earlier argument that the new Ethereum staking protocol looks “a lot like regulated products,” taking sides with the US Securities and Exchange...
