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Controversial Crypto Firm Prometheum to Treat Uniswap and Arbitrum's Tokens as Securities

The SEC-registered crypto platform is expanding its custody operation beyond Ethereum's ETH, and that means it would be holding UNI and ARB as securities.

Aaron (pictured) and Benjamin Kaplan, Co-CEOs of Prometheum, are expanding their custody scope for crypto securities. (Suzanne Cordiero/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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SEC Asks NY Court to Deny Coinbase’s ‘Breathtakingly Broad’ Subpoena Request

The regulatory agency has taken umbrage with Coinbase’s attempt to subpoena SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s personal emails.

Coinbase CEO Brian Amstrong and SEC Chair Gary Gensler

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SEC Intends to Amend Complaint in Binance Case

Third-party tokens are digital assets alleged to be unregistered securities by the SEC that were issued by various companies not named Binance.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Coinbase Narrows Demand for SEC Chair Gensler's Crypto Messages

In its court battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the crypto exchange is seeking internal messages from Gensler and others, but not from his pre-SEC days.

Chair Gary Gensler's U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is weighing Hashdex's ETF application, which analysts suggest could have a leg up because of its novel approach.  (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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SEC Drops Investigation of Bitcoin L2 Stacks and Builder Hiro, Filing Says

The conclusion of the probe into Hiro, formerly known as Blockstack, which raised $70 million via token sales from 2017 to 2019, is another win for the crypto industry in its years-long struggle with the regulator.

Muneeb Ali, CEO, Trust Machines, and Kyle Rojas, Global BD and Partnerships, Edge & Node / The Graph

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SEC Commissioner Grilled on Bitcoin ETFs as Senators Weigh U.S. Regulator Nominees

Crypto wasn't a major topic in a four-person confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, though SEC Commissioner Crenshaw was questioned on bitcoin ETFs.

A U.S. Senate committee passed a spending bill with a surprise crypto provision. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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U.S. Judge Lets Most of SEC Case Against Binance Proceed, Dismisses Secondary Sales Charge

A federal judge ruled the SEC had plausibly alleged Binance, Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao violated federal securities laws.

Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as "CZ", founder and CEO of Binance, at Davos in 2023. (Casper Labs)

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Coinbase Accuses U.S. SEC, FDIC of Improperly Blocking Document Requests

The U.S. crypto exchange wanted the SEC to give up documents on closed probes involving ether's status as a security, and its research contractor is now suing to get them.

Coinbase CEO Brian Amstrong and SEC Chair Gary Gensler

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U.S. Judge Signs Off on $4.5B Terraform-Do Kwon Settlement With SEC

The settlement bans Kwon and Terraform Labs from buying and selling crypto asset securities while agreeing to pay $4.5 billion in disgorgement, prejudgment interest, and civil penalties

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon (CoinDesk TV)

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Ether ETFs Should Be Fully Approved by September, Says SEC Chair Gensler

The chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission told senators in a budget hearing that the applications to run ether spot ETFs should be finished this summer.

Chair Gary Gensler continues to defend his agency's Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121 on handling crypto. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)