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CNBC Crypto World features the latest news and daily trading updates from the digital currency markets and provides viewers with a look at what’s ahead with high-profile interviews, explainers, and unique stories from the ever-changing crypto industry. On today’s show, Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis discusses feedback to her bill to build a strategic bitcoin reserve. Plus, she breaks down where progress stands on passing U.S. crypto regulation.
Following Monday’s show taping, an SEC spokesperson responded to CNBC’s request for comment on the court’s denial of Kraken’s motion to dismiss the agency’s lawsuit against the crypto exchange writing, “Once again, a court confirmed that the framework used to identify securities for nearly 80 years still applies, regardless of the labels used. Investors in crypto assets offered or sold as securities should get the same protections as investors in other securities, even when they are traded using intermediaries. Platforms for trading such crypto assets should register and ensure they have safeguards against fraud and manipulation, the commingling of customer assets, and conflicts of interests. Until they do so, investors will continue to get hurt.”
Late Monday afternoon a Kraken spokesperson responded to CNBC’s request for comment on whether the company plans to answer the complaint writing, “Kraken intends to answer the Complaint with multiple defenses to the SEC’s inconsistent and legally erroneous positions. We look forward to victory at trial.”