media: SEC requested from Robinhood data on cryptocurrency listing – Bits Media

United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Sended information about information to the American platform Robinhood, relating to the placement of cryptocurrencies for trading.

As reported by Fox Business Journalist Eleanor Terrett said on Twitter (Eleanor terrett), The regulator requested Robinhood information about measures, made by the site for safe storage of assets, And about operations with digital assets.

Robinhood is now supporting 18 cryptocurrency, Including BTC, ETH, Shib, THERE IS, SOL, Avax и doge. At the same time, there are no trading pairs with XRP on the platform, In connection with the trial between Ripple and SEC, which has been going on for more than two years.

The management of Robinhood noted, that the actions of the regulators are due to a series of bankruptcy of crypto companies, shocked cryptocurrency space last year. Robinhood is afraid, that a regulator or court can force the platform to exclude all leaflet cryptocurrencies.

At the beginning of the month, Terrtt reported, that SEC chairman Gary Gensler (Gary Gensler) plans to arrange a “midnight massacre” in the cryptocurrency market and will try to take this industry under control. She warned, that in the near future SEC, Department of Financial Services of the state New York (NYDFS) and US foreign exchange controller (OCC) take many forced measures against cryptocurrency exchanges and banks, working with digital assets.

Really, A few days after Twit, the journalist regulators demanded, So that Paxos Trust stops the release of new Binance USD stabilcoins. SEC and Nydfs count, that Stablecoin Busd is an unregistered security.

Last year, Terrtt suggested, that the SEC can accuse the illegal ICO and the creators of the Ethereum. Besides, Recently, the chairman of the SEC said, that all crypto acts, except Bitcoin, should belong to the category of securities.