{"id":336728,"date":"2021-09-09T08:19:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T05:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/sec-vs-coinbase-alex-mashinsky-says-celsius-will-have-to-wait-and-see-on-fallout\/"},"modified":"2021-09-09T08:19:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T05:19:22","slug":"sec-vs-coinbase-alex-mashinsky-says-celsius-will-have-to-wait-and-see-on-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sec-vs-coinbase-alex-mashinsky-says-celsius-will-have-to-wait-and-see-on-fallout\/","title":{"rendered":"# SEC vs Coinbase: Alex Mashinsky says Celsius will have to ‘wait and see’ on fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"

“# SEC vs Coinbase: Alex Mashinsky says Celsius will have to ‘wait and see’ on fallout <\/strong>”
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Support for Coinbase and its CEO, Brian Armstrong, has been pouring from the crypto community since the company disclosed in a regulatory filing on Wednesday that it had received a Wells notice from the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission. <\/p>\n

The regulator has threatened to sue the exchange over its proposed Lend program, which would offer 4% interest on customer holdings of the USDC stablecoin. Company CEO Brian Armstrong took to Twitter<\/a> on Sept. 8 to vent his dismay over the lack of clarity from the regulator as to why it believes the product is a security. Rival platforms Celsius and BlockFi offer similar products.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Yahoo! Finance on Sept. 8, Celsius Network co-founder and CEO Alex Mashinsky said<\/a> that everyone in the crypto industry was looking for clarity:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re going through these murky waters right now and we need to get clarity and its going to take a little bit of time before we get the rules and we can start running faster.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mashinsky told Cointelegraph that Coinbase already provides yields on crypto assets such as Ether so the SEC seems to have a particular issue with offering interest on USDC stablecoin deposits.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe SEC claims yield on USDC may be a security if paid to non-accredited investors. Coinbase did not ask permission for all assets only for USDC.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Celsius, which has more than $20 billion in assets under management also pays yields on USDC and other stablecoins to non-accredited investors. However Mashinsky said Celsius had pioneered the area and its products \u201ctook a long time to perfect … it helps being the first to figure things out.” <\/p>\n

When questioned about whether this mean Celsius would be able to successfully navigate similar regulatory scrutiny to Coinbase, he replied:<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone has to wait and see what the SEC will issue as regulation. Looks like Coinbase wants to take the SEC to court like XRP and prove they went beyond their charter.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Billionaire investor and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban took to Twitter on Sept. 9 advising Armstrong and Coinbase to \u201cgo on the offensive\u201d, labeling the move as \u201cregulation via litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brian, this is “Regulation via Litigation”. They aren’t capable of working through this themselves and are afraid of making mistakes in doing so. They they leave it to the lawyers. Just the people you don’t want impacting the new technologies. You have to go on the offensive<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mark Cuban (@mcuban) September 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n