Coinbase must face US securities regulator's lawsuit
March 27, 2024 at 09:50 am EDT
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(Reuters) - A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday said the U.S. securities regulator's lawsuit against Coinbase can move forward, but dismissed one claim the agency made against the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange. The decision partly granted Coinbase's motion to dismiss the Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit alleging the company is flouting its rules. It is a partial win for Coinbase in what could be a lengthy and expensive court battle.
Coinbase Global, Inc. is a holding company of Coinbase, Inc. and other subsidiaries. The Company provides platform, which enables its users to engage in a variety of activities, including discovering, trading, staking, storing, spending, earning and using their crypto assets. The Company offers a suite of products and services that are designed to meet the distinct needs of its three customer groups: consumers, which includes individual retail user customers seeking to discover or trade crypto assets and engage in on chain activities; institutions, which are businesses that include market makers, asset managers, hedge funds, banks, wealth platforms, registered investment advisors, payment platforms, and public and private corporations; developers, which comprise of developers, creators, merchants, crypto asset issuers, organizations and financial institutions, and other groups building decentralized protocols, applications, products, or other services on chain.