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by rchaud 1154 days ago
Perhaps you're just taking Coinbase at their word? SEC's assessment appears to be that a business like Coinbase should register as a securities exchange.

In 2021, SEC served Coinbase a Wells Notice over that their "Lend" product (yield in USDC) was likely in violation of established case law, US v Howey and Reves v Ernst and Young. Coinbase discloses this on their own blog, under the hilarious title "The SEC has told us it wants to sue us over Lend. We don’t know why"[0]

[0]https://www.coinbase.com/blog/the-sec-has-told-us-it-wants-t...