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Is Coinbase Next After Bittrex? Former US SEC Official Makes Shocking Prediction

As Bittrex becomes the latest victim of an SEC lawsuit, concerns raise over Coinbase becoming the next major crypto exchange to get sued.
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Is Coinbase Next After Bittrex? Former US SEC Official Makes Shocking Prediction

On Monday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed accusations against Bittrex, stating that the Seattle-based exchange did not comply with securities legislation by failing to register with the agency in multiple different regions. In the wake of this news, a noted former SEC official claimed that another major U.S. exchange could be facing similar charges amidst the rampant regulatory crackdown in the country.

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Could Coinbase Be Next?

The financial watchdog has lately been targeting a number of small-to-large crypto firms operating in the United States. This has taken the form of filing lawsuits against cryptocurrency exchanges as well as suspending certain crypto services, such as products that generate yield and lending activities offered by trading platforms.

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While many have condemned the SEC’s intrusive scrutiny and criticized its lack of providing regulatory clarity on cryptocurrencies — John Reed Stark — a former SEC official who served as the SEC Chief at the Office of Internet Enforcement predicted that Coinbase could be the next big crypto exchange to face the brunt of the anti-crypto crusade.

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Coinbase’s Tiff With The SEC

As reported earlier on CoinGape, the California-based crypto exchange has publicly denounced the SEC’s recent actions and urged regulators to create new regulations for cryptocurrencies rather than enforcing the existing ones. The firm had earlier mentioned that becoming SEC-compliant would require it to basically shut down all operations.

Since late 2021, SEC Chief Gary Gensler has been cautioning digital asset exchanges like Coinbase of breaching U.S. laws by allowing investors to trade cryptocurrencies — that should have been regulated as securities. Moreover, he requested the companies follow SEC regulations by becoming registered as securities exchanges and splitting off any operations that could lead to further conflicts of interest.

Earlier last month, the regulatory agency sent a Wells Notice to the firm, notifying that it plans to sue the company for allegedly violating a number of investor-protection laws.

Also Read: Apple’s Latest Move Could Challenge DeFi; Launches High-Yield Savings Account

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Pratik Bhuyan

Pratik has been a crypto evangelist since 2016 & been through almost all that crypto has to offer. Be it the ICO boom, bear markets of 2018, Bitcoin halving to till now - he has seen it all.

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