Tag: regulation

One lawyer said that while stablecoins are meant to be stable, buyers may possibly profit from a range of arbitrage, hedging, and staking opportunities. Recently reported planned enforcement action against Paxos by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over Binance USD has many in the community questioning how the regulator could see a stablecoin…

Christopher Waller praised the emerging applications of distributed ledger technology, smart contracts and tokenization, but he changed his tune for crypto assets. The parts that make up the cryptocurrency ecosystem are not all equal, United States Federal Reserve Board governor Christopher Waller told a conference audience on Feb. 10. He had clear preferences among the…

The ConsenSys founder and Ethereum co-founder said it’s as unlikely as ride-sharing service Uber becoming illegal. Ethereum co-founder and crypto entrepreneur Joseph Lubin is confident that Ether won’t be classified as a security in the United States. Cointelegraph spoke with Lubin, Ethereum co-founder and founder of blockchain tech firm ConsenSys, in Tel Aviv at the Web3…

United States authorities are allegedly discouraging banks from offering services to the crypto industry. United States authorities appear to be resurrecting past techniques to crack down on crypto firms and banks offering services to the industry, several sources told Cointelegraph. The alleged strategy consists of isolating the traditional financial system from the crypto market by…

Lewis Cohen headed a team researching Howey-related case law to propose an application that differentiates between primary and secondary transactions. The crypto community celebrated a victory in court on Jan. 30 when the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) admitted in the remedies hearing of the LBRY case that secondary sales of its LBC…

Banning retail crypto staking in the US would result in even more businesses moving offshore, argues the Coinbase co-founder. The CEO and co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, believes that banning retail crypto staking in the United States would be a ‘terrible’ move by the country’s regulators. Armstrong made the comments in a Feb. 9 Twitter…