Unclear regulations drove 95% of trading activity offshore: Coinbase CEO

cointelegraph.com:

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong was not delighted with the news about the United States regulators looking into FTX.US along with Coinbase and Binance.US in the wake of the FTX crisis.

Armstrong said that the enforcement action against U.S.-based companies for the irregularities committed by an offshore crypto exchange that fall out of the jurisdictions of U.S. regulators makes no sense.

Armstrong’s comments came in response to Senator Elizabeth Warren’s call for “aggressive enforcement” in the wake of the FTX crisis. The Coinbase CEO blamed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the lack of regulatory clarity in the U.S., which he believes drove out 95% of trading activity to offshore exchanges.

https://t.co/0HxlRiI6Sy was an offshore exchange not regulated by the SEC.The problem is that the SEC failed to create regulatory clarity here in the US, so many American investors (and 95% of trading activity) went offshore.Punishing US companies for this makes no sense.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, who is currently involved in a securities lawsuit with the SEC, cited the example of Singapore. He said that companies have zero guidance on how to comply in the U.S., while in Singapore, there is a clear licensing framework and tax economy, which makes it much easier to comply.

Compare that with Singapore which has a licensing framework, token taxonomy laid out, and much more. They can appropriately regulate crypto b/c they've done the work to define what “good” looks like, and know all tokens aren’t securities (despite what Chair Gensler insists) 2/2

The collapse of the world’s third-largest crypto exchange finally attracted the attention of the U.S. regulatory bodies. According to a recent report, the U.S. Department of Justice