Hi everyone, welcome back to another Distributed Ledger. This is Anushree Dave, crypto reporter at MarketWatch.
Coinbase COIN made headlines again this week after the company took legal action against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. On Monday, Coinbase asked the federal court to force the SEC to respond to its crypto-regulation petition. In short, Coinbase wants clear regulations around how to operate, but the SEC has not yet provided those for the company to operate. What does that mean for the industry more broadly? Read below for more.
“To date, the SEC has largely relied on regulation through enforcement, creating an atmosphere of uncertainty and mistrust in the crypto markets,” said Rahsan Boykin, General Counsel at Hashflow, a decentralized exchange. “This approach is not a sustainable way to regulate a rapidly evolving industry.”