{"id":79836,"date":"2023-06-06T20:42:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=79836"},"modified":"2025-09-11T13:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:19:24","slug":"coinbase-official-says-sec-lawsuit-undermines-us-competitiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/coinbase-official-says-sec-lawsuit-undermines-us-competitiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase official says SEC lawsuit &#8216;undermines US competitiveness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coinbase&#8217;s chief legal officer Paul Grewal said that the <span data-descr=\"U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission\" class=\"old_tooltip\">SEC<\/span>&#8216;s approaches to regulation undermine the United States&#8217; competitiveness. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/233315\/coinbase-sec-lawsuit-is-hurting-americas-economic-competitiveness\">The Block<\/a> reports this.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe SEC&#8217;s reliance on enforcement alone, in the absence of clear rules for the digital asset industry, undermines the United States&#8217; economic competitiveness and companies like Coinbase that have demonstrated a commitment to compliance,\u201d the executive said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also stressed that the exchange plans to continue operating as usual.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe solution is legislation that enables the transparent development and application of fair rules, rather than litigation,\u201d added Grewal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brian_armstrong\/status\/1666127353574219777\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cInstead of issuing a codified set of clear rules, the SEC has undertaken enforcement actions that harm America. So if we need to go to court to obtain clarity, so be it,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to him, the suit largely focuses on whether the exchange listed securities. Armstrong stressed that the company is confident in its approach.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier ForkLog <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sec-files-suit-against-coinbase-exchange\">reported<\/a> on the SEC&#8217;s lawsuit against Coinbase, filed a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sec-files-suit-against-binance-and-changpeng-zhao\">the start of proceedings with Binance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator contends that the platform violated securities laws. In the regulator&#8217;s view, a number of tokens on the exchange fall under this definition: SOL, ADA, MATIC, FIL, SAND, AXS, CHZ, FLOW, ICP, NEAR, VGX, DASH and NEXO.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC alleged that Coinbase illegally combines three functions \u2014 as broker, exchange and clearing agency, which are typically separated in traditional markets. The regulator&#8217;s Coinbase Earn staking program was also targeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinbase&#8217;s chief legal officer Paul Grewal said that the SEC&#8217;s regulatory approaches undermine US competitiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[138,128],"class_list":["post-79836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-coinbase","tag-sec"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79838,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79836\/revisions\/79838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}