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SEC asked Coinbase to cease all crypto trading except Bitcoin, CEO says

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SEC asked Coinbase to cease all crypto trading except Bitcoin, CEO says

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asked Coinbase to halt all crypto trading operations except for Bitcoin (BTC).

Financial Times (FT) report cites the San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbaseโ€™s CEO Brian Armstrong.

He claims that SECโ€™s request came prior to the regulatorโ€™s lawsuit against the exchange. On July 6, SEC sued Coinbase for allegedly operating in the US without having the necessary registrations. 

Moreover, Armstrong believes that the agencyโ€™s demand to halt all digital asset trading activities โ€” with Coinbase offering more than 200 tokens โ€” would have brought โ€œthe end of the crypto industry in the US.โ€

โ€œThey came back to us, and they said . . . we believe every asset other than Bitcoin is a security. And, we said, well how are you coming to that conclusion, because thatโ€™s not our interpretation of the law. And they said, weโ€™re not going to explain it to you, you need to delist every asset other than Bitcoin.โ€

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told FT.

The report suggests that the SEC took legal action against the exchange for offering the 13 cryptocurrencies the agency identifies as securities.

The 40-year-old CEO says Coinbaseโ€™s choice was rather easy for not delisting the assets. โ€œIt kind of made it an easy choice โ€ฆ letโ€™s go to the court and find out what the court says,โ€ Armstrong added.