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Will the SEC Convince a Court It’s Right to Label These Tokens as Securities?

The U.S. agency’s insider-trading case against a former Coinbase manager hinged on nine tokens it classified as securities, but the ex-employee’s lawyers are saying it’s not so.

Updated Feb 8, 2023, 6:46 p.m. Published Feb 8, 2023, 1:00 p.m.
SEC Chair Gary Gensler (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
SEC Chair Gary Gensler (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)