Coinbase Vs. State Regulators: Crypto Exchange Fights Legal Fragmentation
US-based crypto exchange Coinbase has made a significant appeal to the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding a wave of lawsuits aimed at its operations. The company is urging federal action to address what it describes as an “increasingly fragmented and hostile” regulatory landscape for the crypto market. Coinbase Urges Federal Action In a recent letter, Coinbase highlighted the steps taken by the current Administration to create a more equitable framework for digital asset regulation. This includes the introduction of stablecoin legislation and two pending bipartisan market-structure....
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Crypto exchange Coinbase has been meeting with a number of regulators to convince them that the U.S. should have just one federal regulator overseeing the crypto sector. Currently, there is a variety of different regulators in the U.S., CEO Brian Armstrong explained, noting that Coinbase has “53 regulators in just one country, the United States.”
Coinbase Wants One Regulator in the US
The Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is pushing for the U.S. to have just one crypto regulator.
“We’ve met with a number of different regulators....
The Wyoming Banking Regulations have been pressing the Coinbase Exchange. Coinbase, a Bitcoin Wallet and Exchange Service Provider has announced the suspension of all operations in Wyoming as a result of state financial regulators' interpretation of the Wyoming Money Transmitter Act. The exchange already counts with operations serving more than 2.5 million users in 190 countries will now be forced to stop its operations in this State. Andrea Castillo, Mercatus Center Technology Policy Program Manager says Wyoming's banking policies are holding back innovative digital businesses like....
San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken finds itself in the midst of a legal showdown with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as it fights against the agency’s request for user data. On its part, the IRS seeks to investigate potential tax liabilities of Kraken customers who engaged in cryptocurrency transactions between 2016 and 2020. However, while […]
The Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase says that it wants to be “the Amazon of assets” and list every legal crypto asset out there. The company has outlined two major long-term trends affecting its business. Coinbase Wants to List All Legal Cryptocurrencies Coinbase revealed its plan during the Q2 2021 earnings call Tuesday. CEO Brian Armstrong explained: “We at Coinbase always think about longer-term cycles of crypto … We’re always looking at the long-term trends.” He described two key trends affecting Coinbase. “The first one is that....
It was just a couple weeks ago that Coinbase posted a blog post, paired with a hefty Twitter thread from CEO Brian Armstrong highlighting recent challenges with the SEC. Armstrong described the agency’s behavior as “sketchy” after the SEC seemingly threatened the exchange that a lawsuit would be impending should Coinbase launch their expected interest-yielding product, Lend. If Armstrong’s tweet thread didn’t give it away, the company’s blog post, spearheaded by Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal, was undoubtedly lined with some of the firm’s....