在指控 Cumberland DRW 经营未经注册的证券交易业务数月后,美国证券交易委员会决定撤销此案。
这家总部位于芝加哥的加密货币公司在 3 月 4 日发布的 X 帖子中表示,根据 2 月 20 日达成的协议,它已与美国证券交易委员会签署了一份联合文件,以驳回诉讼。该文件仍需获得该机构的正式批准,但坎伯兰似乎相信该案件即将结束。
坎伯兰认为该机构的决定是监管机构和加密行业之间更好合作的一步,并表示将继续与美国证券交易委员会进行讨论,以构建“技术进步和监管清晰度齐头并进”的未来。
Cumberlandâs case was centered on allegations that it operated as an unregistered securities dealer, with the SEC accusing the firm of trading more than $2 billion in crypto assets without proper registration.
在去年 10 月 10 日对该公司提起的诉讼中,该委员会表示,Cumberland 通过其自营交易平台 Marea 和通过电话进行的场外交易进行这些交易。该机构还指出了五种特定的代币——Polygon、Solana、Cosmos、Algorand 和 Filecoin——根据联邦法律,它们被视为证券。
作为诉讼的一部分,美国证券交易委员会寻求永久性禁令救济、没收利润、判决前利息和民事处罚。
然而,坎伯兰反驳道,它于 2019 年注册为经纪商,并花了五年时间与美国证券交易委员会进行“诚信讨论”。
This marks yet another crypto case from which the SEC has walked away in recent months. Over the past weeks, the regulator has also dropped lawsuits against major exchanges like Coinbase and Kraken, as well as investigations into NFT players Yuga Labs and OpenSea. More recently, it ended probes into Uniswap Labs and Gemini.
In related developments, the SEC, led by Commissioner Hester, recently unveiled key personnel that would be a part of its Crypto Task Force. The new team is set to host roundtables to clarify the security status of digital assets, with the first session scheduled for March 21 at the agencyâs Washington, D.C., headquarters.