The litigation between the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the San Francisco-based blockchain company Ripple took a new turn. The regulator’s motion to revoke the amici curiae status granted to XRP holders was dismissed by Federal District Judge Analisa Torres. According to the defense lawyer James K. Filan, the motion to prevent attorney...Read More
Coinbase (COIN) closed at $52.93 on Tuesday – 21% down from the day’s starting price of $61.74. It is now down 75% on the year, and 84% down from its all-time high. The decline is likely related to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s newly revealed probe against the popular exchange. The regulator believes that...Read More
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is concerned that some Zipmex users may have lost funds after the exchange briefly halted withdrawals and other services last week due to extreme market conditions. Thai SEC Launches Online Forum for Zipmex Users The regulator announced on Monday that it is collaborating with law enforcement to collect data...Read More
By Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer Tl;dr: Coinbase does not list securities on its platform. Period. We have said it before, but given today’s events, it bears repeating. Earlier today, following a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into a former Coinbase employee’s misuse of confidential Coinbase information related to listing decisions, the Securities and Exchange...Read More
The pro-crypto regulatory framework proposed by U.S. Senators Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand is unlikely to see the light of day this year. Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis said on July 19 that the U.S. Senate is unlikely to vote on the bill this year. “It’s a big topic, it’s comprehensive, and it’s still new to...Read More
ARK Investment Management – a company spearheaded by fund manager Cathie Wood – will reportedly have to wait longer than expected to hear the US SEC’s decision on whether it can launch a spot Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund (ETF). In May this year, the firm once again displayed its ambitions to introduce a product that...Read More
In the ongoing US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) vs. Ripple Labs case, Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn, on July 12, dismissed the agency’s appeal for the protection of William Hinman’s speech from disclosure. “This argument was previously raised secondarily, with the SEC primarily asserting the deliberative process privilege. The SEC’s motion is DENIED,” she said. The court...Read More
This year, the majority of the crypto community had hoped for the Securities and Exchange Commission to have a more lenient approach as far as Bitcoin ETFs are concerned. That came after several companies applied for the same at the beginning of the year. Among them included Valkyrie, VanEck, Grayscale, Teucrium, and Global X, among...Read More
On Thursday, investment company Jacobi Asset Management announced it would launch a Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) on the Euronext Amsterdam Exchange in July. Jacobi to Launch Europe’s First Bitcoin ETF The firm’s official announcement noted that the new fund is called the Jacobi Bitcoin ETF and will trade under the ticker BCOIN. The product will...Read More
On June 29, the U.S. securities regulator rejected the proposal by Grayscale to list a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the NYSE Arca exchange. According to the SEC, the proposal did not meet standards designed to prevent fraudulent and manipulative market practices. It stated that the rejection was not based on an “assessment of...Read More
The lawsuit filed by the SEC in December 2020, alleging that Ripple Labs Inc, Brad Garlinghouse, and Chris Larsen illegally used XRP as unregistered security to raise $1.3 billion, continues to be delayed to such an extent that The CEO of Ripple is threatening with the possibility of leaving the country in the event that...Read More
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler recently confirmed that he believes Bitcoin is best classified as a commodity, rather than a security. However, he refused to comment on the classification of any other cryptos, leaving the status of altcoins like Ethereum still unclear. Bitcoin VS The Rest In an interview with CNBC on...Read More
US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler has sought a formal cooperation between financial agencies to regulate the crypto assets effectively. One Rulebook for Crypto Trade According to a news report in the Financial Times, Gensler said there should be one rule book so that bad actors don’t make use of regulatory gaps and...Read More
Michael Sonnenshein, the CEO of the leading crypto asset manager, Grayscale Investments, believes the launch of ProShares’ Short Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) could be a positive sign for the industry. SEC Becoming More Comfortable With Bitcoin In a Twitter thread on Tuesday, Sonnenshein noted that he believes the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...Read More
Despite her bullish defense of the crypto industry’s growth, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commissioner Hester Peirce – aka “Crypto Mom ” – would never support bailing it out of a crisis. On Friday, she claimed that its lack of such a mechanism is actually a strength of the marketplace. Letting Bad Companies Fail In...Read More
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, famously known as “crypto mom” due to her years-long supportive attitude toward the industry, slammed the top US securities watchdog for failing to greenlight spot bitcoin ETFs. She said the organization should have proactively provided guidelines and regulatory clarity for funds and exchanges that aim to launch such a product. On...Read More
Gary Gensler – Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – spoke about crypto during the RFK Human Rights Compass Summer Investors Conference on Tuesday. He cautioned the public about the returns that some companies within the crypto space are promising, which he views as “too good to be true.” Too Good to be...Read More
A recent court ruling has granted an application by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to order Terraform Labs and its co-founder Do Kwon to comply with the agency’s investigative subpoenas. Court Rules in Favor of the SEC The United State Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit made the ruling on Wednesday (June 8,...Read More
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand – co-author of the landmark crypto regulation bill revealed yesterday – claims that both the SEC and CFTC chairmen agree on Bitcoin and Ether’s status as commodities. However, both she and Senator Cynthia Lummis also agree that most other cryptocurrencies are securities. Ethereum in the Clear Senators Gillibrand and Lummis discussed their...Read More
The world’s largest digital asset manager – Grayscale – hired Donald B. Verrilli as additional legal counsel. With his help, the firm aims to receive the SEC’s approval and finally convert its Bitcoin trust into an exchange-traded fund. Grayscale Reinforces Bitcoin ETF Team In a recent tweet, Grayscale raised hopes that Verrilli could be a...Read More
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission continues to deny applications for Bitcoin ETFs. The latest one is the proposed rule change to list and trade shares of the One River Carbon Neutral Bitcoin Trust. The SEC has denied yet another application to launch a Bitcoin ETF. On May 27th, the Commission issued a notice...Read More
ARK Investment Management, the firm led by prominent fund manager Cathie Wood, has filed for another spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund – ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF. The SEC has until January 24, 2023, to decide whether to approve or reject it. As per the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, ARK Invest has included...Read More
Peirce, also affectionately known as ‘Crypto Mom,’ said that there might soon be movement on stablecoin regulations in the U.S. The comments came at an online panel debate hosted by the London-based Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) policy think tank on May 12. “One place we might see some movement is around stablecoins,”...Read More
Nessa Risley, an Uniswap user from North Carolina, invested about $10,400 on low-cap digital tokens such as EthereumMax, Matrix Samurai, and Rocket Bunny between May and July of last year. The trader has since experienced “substantial losses” and thus sought justice through legal action. On April 4, Risley launched the legal proceedings, alleging that Uniswap...Read More
Coin Center has vehemently pushed back the controversial SEC proposal that sought to redefine the definition of “exchange” within the Securities Exchange Act in a bid to “include systems that offer the use of non-firm trading interest and communications protocols to bring together buyers and sellers of securities.” The group deemed the regulator’s move as...Read More
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – urged local companies that provide crypto services to disclose the associated risks with such operations to clients. The agency warned investors to be utterly cautious when delving into the asset class as they could experience a financial loss. Crypto Firms Should be Held Accountable The US SEC...Read More
Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota’s 6th district recently sent a letter to Gary Gensler – Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – with critical questions about the authority’s crypto industry reporting requirements. The letter is written on behalf of multiple blockchain firms that claim these requirements – framed as “requests” – aren’t exactly...Read More
A Bitcoin exchange-traded fund is something that the cryptocurrency community is looking forward to for quite some time. Unfortunately, the US Securities and Exchange Commission is not on the same page yet. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission rejected two proposals to list and trade shares of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, according to Reuters. The...Read More
The half a decade-old multinational financial service giant has followed the footsteps of Blackrock into filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission to release a Crypto Economy ETF. The document informed that the main goal of the fund will be to “track as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the total return of an...Read More
The SEC is now aiming at the creators of NFTs in an effort to determine whether or not they violate its rules and regulations. The financial regulator is growing concerned that NFTs are being used for unregulated securities token offerings, according to Bloomberg. The ongoing review is also examining fractional non-fungible tokens – when they...Read More
