SEC Chair Gensler Cautions About Crypto Investing Warns Thousands of Crypto Tokens May Be Securities

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler has cautioned about crypto investing. “This is a highly speculative asset class. One could just look at the volatility of bitcoin in the last few days,” he stressed, warning that thousands of crypto tokens may be securities. Gary Gensler’s Crypto Investment Warning The chairman of the [...]

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SEC Chair Gensler Calls for More Regulatory Sunlight in Cryptocurrency Sector at Law Conference

At a recent gathering at the Columbia Law School Conference, Gary Gensler, the chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, addressed the assembly on the topic of the digital currency landscape. His discourse highlighted the “benefits of mandatory disclosure,” with Gensler humorously alleging that certain “participants in crypto securities markets that seek to avoid [...]

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Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin says no chance ETH is classed as security

The ConsenSys founder and Ethereum co-founder said it’s as unlikely as ride-sharing service Uber becoming illegal.

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Binance wins dismissal of class action over 2018 tokens that tanked

The judge ruled domestic law doesn’t apply to Binance as it is not an exchange domestic to the U.S. and that the case was filed “too late”.

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Bittrex US Allows Fiat and Crypto Withdrawals Amid Bankruptcy Proceedings

Bittrex US, the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, has recently introduced a plan that permits American customers to withdraw crypto and fiat from the platform, provided they satisfy the required regulatory criteria. This withdrawal arrangement was approved on Tuesday by the U.S. bankruptcy court located in Delaware. Cryptocurrency Exchange Bittrex US Enables Customer [...]

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Microstrategy’s Saylor Envisions Bitcoin-Only Future for Crypto Industry as US Regulators Hammer the Sector

According to Microstrategy founder Michael Saylor, regulators perceive no “legitimate path forward” for cryptocurrencies such as stablecoins, crypto securities, and tokens. In an interview with Bloomberg on Tuesday, Saylor emphasized that the entire industry is bound for rationalization and will undergo a significant metamorphosis into a Bitcoin-centric financial sector, leaving only a few proof-of-work tokens

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SEC’s Gensler says BTC, ETH ‘not securities’ in a newly surfaced video

The 2018-era Gensler appeared much more lenient towards certain cryptocurrencies, including Ether.

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eToro halts ALGO, MANA, MATIC and DASH purchases for US customers

Retail trading platform eToro has halted purchases of Algorand (ALGO), Decentraland (MANA), Polygon (MATIC), and Dash (DASH) for customers in the United States in response to the tokens being labeled as securities in recent SEC lawsuits. The move comes just a few days after competitor Robinhood also halted support for MATIC along with Cardano (ADA) and [...]

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Bittrex, SEC Reach Settlement In Securities Violation Case

Another crypto firm, Bittrex, bites the dust in the SEC’s continued clampdown on major players in the crypto industry amidst regulatory uncertainty. The regulator has been known to come hard at these crypto firms because it believes they aren’t toeing an almost non-existent regulatory framework.  Bittrex Succumbs To SEC In a press release dated August [...]

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Committee Advises SEC to ‘Aggressively Assert Authority’ Over Crypto — Says Virtually All Crypto Tokens Are Securities

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee has advised the SEC to “aggressively” assert authority over crypto assets that are securities. The advisory committee believes that “virtually all, if not all, crypto tokens are securities,” urging the regulator to “make crypto asset-related enforcement a top priority.” SEC Urged to ‘Aggressively’ Assert Authority Over [...]

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SEC sues Cumberland DRW for unregistered crypto dealer activities

Cumberland allegedly had $2 billion worth of unregistered crypto dealing since 2018.

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CoinGecko now has an index for crypto tokens alleged as securities

According to CoinGecko, nearly $85 billion worth of crypto falls under the category of “alleged SEC securities.”

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US SEC Identifies 12 Crypto Tokens as Securities in Binance Lawsuit

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has identified 12 crypto tokens as securities in a new lawsuit filed against Binance and its CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ). The securities regulator asserted that Binance platforms “have made available for trading on them crypto assets that are offered and sold as investment contracts, and thus as securities.” [...]

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