Coinbase has been freed from a protracted legal battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Because the agency agreed to stop litigation, one of the industry’s central battles in federal courts.
When the US crypto exchange announced its transaction last week, the SEC’s intention to agree to shut down the legal dispute was already publicly available, but the commissioner had to formally vote to ask a federal judge to throw a switch. The fire was done so that regulators could not change their minds later.
“It’s time for the committee to rectify its approach and develop crypto policy in a more transparent way,” Acting SEC Chairman Mark Ueda said in a statement. SEC attorneys have already filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit
Removing this main case will not free the SEC from other Coinbase legal issues. This includes the company’s petitions that force the pursuit of cryptographic rules and Coinbase’s internal documents in the ongoing work of exchange to clarify the personal deliberations of regulators regarding how to approach digital assets.
However, the enforcement case was the biggest legal concern for public US companies, sought to raise the central legal question of what creates crypto security and when digital asset exchanges will be registered with the institution. These basic questions are currently awaiting the answers that must be provided by the US Congress.
Once the SEC’s previous leadership left, Gary Gensler, the skeptical chairman of code, in particular, was a temporary chairman promoted by President Donald Trump’s Mark Weda, and began to reassess his attitude towards agency’s legal officers and digital assets. Uyeda appointed Republican Republican Secretary Hester Perth to run the agency’s Cryptographic Task Force. Both were voice critics of the way Gensler approached the industry.
The digital assets sector didn’t have to wait for confirmation of Paul Atkins, the pick for Trump to run the agency permanently, but they are widely expected for the course he maintains, as both Weda and Perth served as his advice when he was a commissioner for the SEC. So far, the course has seen waves of abandoned cryptography investigations, including pausing issues, including Robinhood, Gemini, Consensys’s Metamask, Tron and Binance, and examples of dropped.
Regulators no longer maintain the interpretation of the US Supreme Court’s so-called Howey test.
Coinbase’s SEC’s changing view, which Coinbase first reported last week, will see the exchange shift Washington’s focus to Congress and legislation, Paul Grewal told Coindesk. The company is one of the digital asset companies that led the creation and deployment of Fairshake PAC in the 2004 election, raising more than $160 million in efforts to inaugurate crypto-friendly candidates. Currently, Coinbase is trying to earn profits from its investments with regulations it considers to be favorable.
Fairshake PAC, which has rocked the world of campaign finance at its famous corporate spending level, is dabbing in special elections in preparation for the 2026 cycle.
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