{"id":22606,"date":"2025-02-21T12:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22606"},"modified":"2025-02-21T13:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:27:35","slug":"coinbase-says-s-e-c-will-drop-crypto-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22606","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase Says S.E.C. Will Drop Crypto Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The end of a court fight with the largest U.S. crypto company would be a big win for an industry that financially backed President Trump.<\/p>\n

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The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase said on Friday that the Securities and Exchange Commission had agreed to drop its lawsuit against the company, lifting a legal cloud over the global crypto industry and signaling a broader retreat by federal regulators.<\/p>\n

Coinbase, in a post on its website<\/a> and in a regulatory filing<\/a>, said it had reached an agreement in principle with the S.E.C. to have the lawsuit withdrawn without any financial penalty. If the S.E.C. confirms the proposed settlement, it would be a remarkable reversal by the agency after years of legal battles against crypto firms.<\/p>\n

The S.E.C. sued<\/a> Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto company, in 2023 on the grounds that the digital currencies sold on its platform constituted unregistered securities that put consumers at risk of financial harm.<\/p>\n

Any settlement that results in a dismissal of the lawsuit would require S.E.C. approval. A representative for the S.E.C. was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The lawsuit was the most significant of several that the S.E.C. filed against major crypto companies, arguing that they were operating outside the law. A victory for the government could have threatened the continued operation of Coinbase, a publicly traded company worth about $65 billion, and decimated the broader crypto market.<\/p>\n

The dismissal would be biggest victory for the crypto industry since President Trump took office last month, promising to end the Biden administration\u2019s regulatory crackdown<\/a> on crypto under the previous S.E.C. chair, Gary Gensler. And it illustrates the growing influence in Washington of billionaire technology executives, who wrote enormous checks to support Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign, hoping to secure softer regulation.<\/p>\n

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The end of a court fight with the largest U.S. crypto company would be a big win for an industry that financially backed President Trump.The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase said on Friday that the Securities and Exchange Commission had agreed to drop its lawsuit against the company, lifting a legal cloud over the global crypto industry and signaling a broader retreat by federal regulators.Coinbase, in a post on its website and in a regulatory filing, said it had reached an agreement in principle with the S.E.C. to have the lawsuit withdrawn without any financial penalty. If the S.E.C. confirms the proposed settlement, it would be a remarkable reversal by the agency after years of legal battles against crypto firms.The S.E.C. sued Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto company, in 2023 on the grounds that the digital currencies sold on its platform constituted unregistered securities that put consumers at risk of financial harm.Any settlement that results in a dismissal of the lawsuit would require S.E.C. approval. A representative for the S.E.C. was not immediately available for comment.The lawsuit was the most significant of several that the S.E.C. filed against major crypto companies, arguing that they were operating outside the law. A victory for the government could have threatened the continued operation of Coinbase, a publicly traded company worth about $65 billion, and decimated the broader crypto market.The dismissal would be biggest victory for the crypto industry since President Trump took office last month, promising to end the Biden administration\u2019s regulatory crackdown on crypto under the previous S.E.C. chair, Gary Gensler. And it illustrates the growing influence in Washington of billionaire technology executives, who wrote enormous checks to support Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign, hoping to secure softer regulation.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22608,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22609,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22606\/revisions\/22609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}