{"id":19900,"date":"2023-02-08T16:32:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T00:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/coinbases-coin-brian-armstrong-cites-rumors-the-sec-may-ban-retail-crypto-staking\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T16:32:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T00:32:56","slug":"coinbases-coin-brian-armstrong-cites-rumors-the-sec-may-ban-retail-crypto-staking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/coinbases-coin-brian-armstrong-cites-rumors-the-sec-may-ban-retail-crypto-staking\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase&#8217;s (COIN) Brian Armstrong Cites &#8216;Rumors&#8217; the SEC May Ban Retail Crypto Staking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/resizer\/Yk4QmtyY3oS_Yij8B17-zzva8J4=\/800x600\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/coindesk\/CRO64JEUSBC7LO6AZZO6PHU3AI.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>While Armstrong&#8217;s suspicions may come as a surprise to many in the industry, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler has previously stated that cryptocurrencies that allow staking could be classified as securities under the Howey test \u2013 even though ether has been designated as a commodity by the SEC&#8217;s sister regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2023\/02\/08\/coinbases-ceo-cites-rumors-the-sec-may-ban-crypto-staking-for-retail-customers\/?utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_campaign=headlines\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Armstrong&#8217;s suspicions may come as a surprise to many in the industry, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler has previously stated that cryptocurrencies that allow staking could be classified as securities under the Howey test \u2013 even though ether has been designated as a commodity by the SEC&#8217;s sister regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[2503,826,2359,2504,268,523,13,1641,2505,317,1312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}