Uniswap (UNI) is combating again towards the U.S. Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC).
The most important decentralized change by buying and selling quantity obtained a Wells Discover from the SEC final month, which signifies the regulator intends to take enforcement actions towards the DEX quickly.
Marvin Ammori, the chief authorized officer at Uniswap Labs, notes that the mission submitted an official response to the SEC on Tuesday.
Ammori argues that the SEC depends on a false assumption that just about all crypto belongings are securities.
“However a token is merely a file format–like a PDF or JPEG. Tokens can symbolize any worth, and overwhelmingly symbolize commodities (BTC, ETH, stables) & memes & entry for helpful networks. PDFs will not be inherently inventory certificates, and tokens will not be inherently securities.
Even when securities had been concerned, the Uniswap protocol (and net app, and pockets) don’t fall beneath definitions of the ‘securities change’ or ‘dealer.’
Beneath legislation, the Uniswap protocol must be particularly designed ‘for’ ‘securities’ – and it’s not. It’s for normal functions, primarily used for commodities.”
Ammori additionally says present US legislation requires securities exchanges to be operated by “teams.” The chief authorized officer notes that Uniswap is “autonomous software program” and isn’t operated or managed by anyone.
“Our case is so sturdy that the SEC is making an attempt to vary the legislation to struggle us. The SEC has a pending rulemaking proposing to rewrite its personal definition of ‘change’ – and to redefine ‘group’ and a number of other different phrases past what they really imply. Altering what phrases imply so as to sue us beneath the brand new made-up legislation simply isn’t going to work in court docket.”
The SEC has additionally accused Coinbase, Binance and Kraken of violating securities legal guidelines, launching lawsuits towards all three exchanges final 12 months.
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