SEC-ordföranden föreslår återigen att PoS-tokens kan vara värdepapper

• SEC-ordförande Gary Gensler har föreslagit att alla PoS-kryptotokens kan betraktas som värdepapper. 
• 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 hävdar att investerare som satsar sina tokens förväntar sig någon form av vinst från sina investeringar, vilket bekräftar att PoS-tokens är värdepapper. 
• The SEC Chair has suggested staking token operators “seek to come into compliance.”

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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. 

SEC-ordföranden förhördes den 15 mars efter ett kommissionsmöte om cybersäkerhetsfrågor, och enligt en rapport från Kvarteret, kontrade Gensler vad Rostin Behnam, ordförande för Commodity Futures Trading Commission, påstod under ett möte i senatens jordbrukskommitté förra veckan. 

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. 

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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.”

Å andra sidan har SEC lanserat en aggressiv kampanj för att rensa bort kryptooperationer från USA. Regulatorn nyligen utfärdade ett Wells Notice till Paxos, ett betalningsföretag som var ansvarigt för att ge ut BUSD stablecoin, och hävdade att BUSD är ett oregistrerat värdepapper.  

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 gick med på att betala $30 miljoner i disgorgement, fördomsränta och civilrättsliga påföljder. 

In response to the regulator’s actions against Kraken, the largest crypto exchange in the US, Coinbase, said that the company’s insatstjänster kan inte klassificeras som värdepapper av kommissionen. Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer vid börsen, sa att insats varken är en säkerhet enligt US Securities Act eller enligt Howey-testet.

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