SEC, İddia Edilen Menkul Kıymetler Listeleri Üzerine Coinbase İçin Prob Başlattı: Rapor

Popüler kripto borsası Coinbase is facing a new SEC probe investigating whether it let Americans trade digital assets that should have been registered as securities, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter

A possible investigation relates to the insider trading case launched by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week when the regulator accused one of Coinbase’s former employees of violating the company’s insider trading rules by tipping off his brother and a friend on upcoming token listings.

Her ne kadar SEC o sırada Coinbase'in herhangi bir yanlış yaptığını iddia etmese de ajans, bunun tespit edildiğini söyledi. dokuz tokenın işlem gördüğü İçeriden bilgi ticareti yapmakla suçlanan kişilerin ifadeleri "menkul kıymet tanımının işaretlerini" içeriyordu.

SEC tarafından bahsedilen dokuz dijital varlıktan yedisi şu anda Coinbase'de listeleniyor.

To determine whether a digital asset is a security, the SEC applies the so-called Howey Testi—a set of standards that an investment must meet for the agency to consider it a security and regulate it as such.

Under that framework, the SEC considers a token to be under its purview when it involves investors pledging their money to fund an enterprise with the intention of making profits from the efforts of that organization.

Previously, the SEC said that it does not consider Bitcoin (BTC), the industry’s largest cryptocurrency, to be a security, ajans da Ethereum'u bu şekilde sınıflandırmadı.

The SEC, however, weighed in other cryptocurrencies, such as Ripple’s XRP, slapping the creators of the seventh biggest digital asset by market cap, with a 1.3 milyar dolarlık dava Aralık 2020 içinde.

Gary Gensler, the SEC chair, also savundu last year that Coinbase may be breaking the law by listing “ dozens of tokens that might be securities.”

Coinbase hits back

Cevap Bloomberg Rapora göre Coinbase'in baş hukuk sorumlusu Paul Grewal, Twitter'da borsanın kayıt dışı menkul kıymetleri listelediğini yalanladı.

“We are confident that our rigorous diligence process-a process the SEC has already reviewed-keeps securities off our platform, and we look forward to engaging with the SEC on the matter,” wrote Grewal.

İçinde blog yazısı last week, the San Francisco-based firm said that “this process includes an analysis of whether the asset could be considered to be a security, and also considers regulatory compliance and information security aspects of the asset.”

“Coinbase does not list securities on its platform. Period” added the blog post.

Bundan önce Coinbase, şirketin dilekçe verdi SEC ile “dijital varlık menkul kıymetleri üzerinde kural koymayı” geliştirmek için.

Per the company, the “petition calls on the SEC to develop a workable regulatory framework for digital asset securities guided by formal procedures and a public notice-and-comment process, rather than through arbitrary enforcement or guidance developed behind closed doors.”