Coinbase Prepares Cryptocurrency Regulation Proposal For US Government

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase may offer guidance to US regulators in the coming daysoversight of the cryptocurrency industry.

As reported by Coindesk with reference tosources familiar with the situation, Coinbase will unveil a proposal to regulate the cryptocurrency industry in the coming days. The details of the proposal are still unknown, but among other things, the company intends to raise the question of which crypto assets should be defined as securities and which should not.

A possible impetus for the preparation of such a proposalcould become a controversial situation arising from the plans of Coinbase to launch a high-yield savings product for the USDC. Although the company had been in talks with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a product launch for six months, the agency suddenly warned the exchange in early September that it could sue if Coinbase launched the product.

Industry members urge Coinbase to fight backregulator, however, the exchange decided not to conflict with the SEC and canceled the product launch. Coinbase has repeatedly advocated the creation of guidelines and tools to standardize the exchange's approach to listing cryptocurrencies and launching new products in the United States.

The company was one of the founders launched in2019 by the Crypto Rating Council, which includes major participants in the cryptocurrency industry from the United States. Crypto Rating Council presented updated rules for rating digital assets in May.

Last December, the CEO of CoinbaseBrian Armstrong posted a series of tweets and was one of the first to comment on rumors of a new regulation for non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets that the US government was preparing at the time.

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