Markets with Madison: Crypto-crackdown - are assets safe amid SEC attack?

A leading cryptocurrency lawyer says the grounds for the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) offensive against the world’s two largest exchanges, Binance and Coinbase, are “highly debatable”.

MinterEllisonRuddWatts partner Jeremy Muir told Markets with Madison the allegations lodged against the firms this week were, “to a degree,” an attack on the cryptocurrency industry.

“I think it’s not a very constructive way to build a way forward,” he said.

“They [the SEC] are definitely moving ahead of where the the clarity of the law stands.”

He said the longer term risk to investor’s crypto assets was unclear at this stage, especially for those using Coinbase ($COIN), which was a Nasdaq-listed American-based company.

Coinbase said it met with the SEC 30 times last year requesting legal guidance, while Binance said it would “defend its platform vigorously”.

Get all the details of the allegations and and Jeremy’s take on the SEC’s crypto-crackdown, on today’s episode of Markets with Madison above.

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