SEC Crackdown Spurs Robinhood to Review Its Crypto Operations
Popular brokerage firm Robinhood is reconsidering its cryptocurrency offerings after the Securities and Exchange Commission took action against two major digital asset trading platforms earlier this week.
During a meeting focused on digital assets, Dan Gallagher, Robinhood's legal chief and a former SEC commissioner, told Congress that the brokerage was reviewing the regulator's analysis to determine if any actions needed to be taken, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
At present, Robinhood offers users access to a relatively limited list of 18 different tokens, compared with hundreds available through competitors like Coinbase.
However, some of the tokens that Robinhood offers, such as Solana, Cardano, and Polygon, have been classified by the SEC as unregistered securities.
Robinhood initially began offering trading of Bitcoin and Ethereum to users in California, Massachusetts, Missouri, and Montana in February 2018.
The brokerage firm has since considerably expanded its crypto offerings, even jumping on the meme coin craze with the listing of Dogecoin and Shiba Inu.
In the first quarter of the year, Robinhood made $38 million in crypto trading revenue, down 29.6% from $54 million in Q1 2022.
Over the past two days, the SEC has sued both Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, and Coinbase, the largest US-based cryptocurrency.
Binance, and its US affiliates, were charged on Monday by the SEC for a slew of different charges, from allegedly operating as an unregistered exchange to offering unregistered securities.
The regulator also levied similar charges against Coinbase, claiming that it operated as an exchange, broker, or clearing agency without having the required registrations.
The regulator also charged the US
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