The SEC’s Suit Against Uniswap Is an Opening Attack Against DeFi

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The SEC’s Suit Against Uniswap Is an Opening Attack Against DeFi
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Daniel Kuhn is a deputy managing editor for Consensus Magazine. He owns minor amounts of BTC and ETH.

a Wells Notice indicating the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission intends to sue. While the decentralized finance behemoth said it is “ready to fight” the SEC, indicating a willingness to go to court, the move does represent the latest front in the SEC’s yearslong battle with the crypto industry.

“Taking into account the SEC’s ongoing lawsuits against Coinbase and others as well as their complete unwillingness to provide clarity or a path to registration to those operating lawfully within the US, we can only conclude that this is the latest political effort to target even the best actors building technology on blockchains,” Uniswap said on a blog announcing the Wells Notice.

“The SEC is very imaginative in the ways that you can be violating their rules,” Bill Hughes, senior counsel and director of global regulatory matters at Consensys, told CoinDesk. Part of the issue, conceivably, is that Uniswap Labs runs the biggest portal onto the Uniswap protocol via. Another potential concern is the UNI governance token, launched to give users some control over protocol governance but could be twisted to look like a securities offering.

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