- Two U.S. senators asked SEC Chair Gary Gensler not to approve other crypto ETFs.
- Coinbase’s Paul Grewal said that digital assets “demonstrate market quality metrics.”
- Senators said that crypto ETFs would pose “enormous risks” to retail investors.
Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) Chief Legal Officer, Paul Grewal, took a shot at two United States senators who sent a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair, Gary Gensler, asking the agency not to approve any other crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) after spot Bitcoin ETFs.
In the letter, Democrat senators Jack Reed and Laphonza Butler said that crypto ETFs posed “enormous risks” to retail investors. The lawmakers believe that if more crypto ETFs are approved, investors will be exposed to “thinly traded” markets that have succumbed to fraud and manipulation.
Retail investors would face enormous risks from ETPs referencing thinly traded cryptocurrencies or cryptocurrencies whose prices are especially susceptible to pump-and-dump or other fraudulent schemes.
On the other hand, Coinbase’s Grewal took to social media platform X to emphasize that “the evidence points exactly the opposite way.”…
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