{"id":661882,"date":"2025-04-10T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T08:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/opensea-urges-sec-to-exclude-nft-marketplaces-from-regulators-remit\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T08:40:20","slug":"opensea-urges-sec-to-exclude-nft-marketplaces-from-regulators-remit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/opensea-urges-sec-to-exclude-nft-marketplaces-from-regulators-remit\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenSea urges SEC to exclude NFT marketplaces from regulator\u2019s remit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDQvMDE5NjFkYTMtYjRkMS03ODNmLThkNjEtZWM0MDBlNDJlZjJk.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\">\n                    <\/p>\n<p>OpenSea\u2019s lawyers argue NFT marketplaces should be exempt from SEC regulation, as they don&#8217;t fit the definition of a broker.<\/p>\n<p><p>Non-fungible token marketplace OpenSea has urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission to exclude NFT marketplaces from regulation under federal securities laws.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC needs to \u201cclearly state that NFT marketplaces like OpenSea do not qualify as exchanges under federal securities laws,\u201d OpenSea <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> counsel Adele Faure and deputy general counsel Laura Brookover <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/files\/ctf-input-faure-brookover-040925.pdf\" rel=\"null\" target=\"null\" title=\"null\">said<\/a> in an April 9 letter to Commissioner Hester Peirce, who leads the agency\u2019s Crypto Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>Faure and Brookover argued that NFT marketplaces don\u2019t meet the legal definition of an exchange under US securities laws as they don\u2019t execute transactions, act as inter<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>ries or bring together multiple sellers for the same asset.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/category\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" >General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/opensea-urges-sec-exclude-nft-marketplaces-securities-regulation?utm_source=rss_feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenSea\u2019s lawyers argue NFT marketplaces should be exempt from SEC regulation, as they don&#8217;t fit the definition of a broker. Non-fungible token marketplace OpenSea has urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission to exclude NFT marketplaces from regulation under federal securities laws. The SEC needs to \u201cclearly state that NFT marketplaces like OpenSea do not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":661883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-04\/01961da3-b4d1-783f-8d61-ec400e42ef2d","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95118,133792,74898,86389,70934,67874],"class_list":["post-661882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-nft","tag-opensea","tag-sec","tag-marketplace","tag-regulation","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}