
O presidente da SEC sugere mais uma vez que os tokens PoS podem ser títulos
- O presidente da SEC, Gary Gensler, sugeriu que todos os tokens criptográficos PoS podem ser considerados valores mobiliários.
- Gensler contradicted CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam’s statement from last week when he said that stablecoins and Ether (ETH) are not securities.
- “Notwithstanding a regulatory framework around stablecoins, they’re going to be commodities in my view,” said Behnam.
- Gensler afirma que os investidores que apostam em seus tokens esperam algum tipo de lucro de seus investimentos, o que confirma que os tokens PoS são valores mobiliários.
- The SEC Chair has suggested staking token operators “seek to come into compliance.”
The position of the Securities and Exchange Commission on cryptocurrencies remains clear, as the community is questioning SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s capabilities following the collapse of crypto exchange FTX and 130+ other companies, along with crypto bank Silvergate Bank. Interestingly, Gesnler suggested in a recent statement that proof-of-stake crypto tokens might be considered securities by the regulator.
O presidente da SEC foi questionado em 15 de março após uma reunião da comissão sobre questões de segurança cibernética e de acordo com um relatório da O bloco, Gensler contradisse o que Rostin Behnam, presidente da Comissão de Negociação de Futuros de Commodities, afirmou durante uma reunião do Comitê Agrícola do Senado na semana passada.
Behnam said that stablecoins and Ether (ETH), in his opinion, are commodities and cannot be classified as securities. “Notwithstanding a regulatory framework around stablecoins, they’re going to be commodities in my view,” said Behnam.
However, SEC Chair Gensler pointed out that “the investing public is investing anticipating a return, anticipating something on these tokens, whether they’re proof-of-stake tokens, where they’re also looking to get returns on those proof-of-stake tokens and getting 2%, 4%, 18% returns,” while adding:
“Whatever they’re promoting and putting into a protocol, and locking up their tokens in a protocol, a protocol that’s often a small group of entrepreneurs and developers are developing, I would just suggest that each of these token operators … seek to come into compliance, and the same with the intermediaries.”
It is clear that the SEC Chair believes that PoS tokens are securities, as investors expect a return from staking their assets. Last month, Gensler told a Senate Banking Committee that staking is “another indicia that, under the Howey test, the investing public is anticipating profits based on the efforts of others.”
Por outro lado, a SEC lançou uma campanha agressiva para expulsar as operações criptográficas dos EUA. O regulador recentemente emitiu um Wells Notice para Paxos, uma empresa de pagamentos responsável pela emissão da stablecoin BUSD, alegando que BUSD é um título não registrado.
Moreover, the SEC also sued crypto exchange Kraken for providing staking services to the citizens of the US and stated that the exchange failed “to register the offer and sale of their crypto asset staking-as-a-service program.” Kraken concordou em pagar $30 milhões em restituição, juros de pré-julgamento e penalidades civis.
In response to the regulator’s actions against Kraken, the largest crypto exchange in the US, Coinbase, said that the company’s serviços de apostas não podem ser classificados como títulos pela Comissão. Paul Grewal, diretor jurídico da bolsa, disse que o staking não é um título sob a Lei de Valores Mobiliários dos Estados Unidos nem sob o teste Howey.