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Nickel Digital CEO Anatoly Crachilovon Views On SEC Regulation

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A viewpoint was shared by CEO and Founding Partner at Nickel Digital- Anatoly Crachilov, on SEC regulation of the digital asset sector. One of the great ironies of this latest action is that the SEC’s claim that “time-tested securities laws promote trust in the market” whilst they have a habit of glacial-paced decision-making and only act  after the horse has bolted. Their own press release acknowledges that Genesis and Gemini agreed on the program in Dec 2020.

Crypto Twitter had an unwelcoming reaction to SEC’s recent ill-timed action: “It’s like running a stop
sign that wasn’t there and giving someone a ticket. Please give clear guidelines that bolster positive
growth”.

If the SEC’s real concern was investor protection, it would exhibit a proactive approach. Yet, in 
virtually all dealings with the industry, the SEC has been reactive, denying clarity during critical 
decision-making and bringing delayed enforcement when the investor damage has already been 
done. Gary Gensler and the SEC compounded recent woes of contagion-affected Genesis and Gemini 
customers by charging both companies with unlicensed securities offerings through the Gemini Earn 
program. The problem with this latest episode is that it comes across more as a PR performance than 
an act of investor protection. 

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If the SEC truly aims to protect investors, it needs to shape the design of nascent industries rather 
than hinder their progress. It also must ensure that “time-tested” laws reflect the changing realities 
of the Information Age. 
The SEC’s gold standard remains the Howey Test dating back to anachronistic 1946 but that relates 
to a period where the complexity of interactions within the economy was closer to the 19th-century 
slow-paced world than the 21st-century burgeoning information reality.    
 

All things being equal, it might have offered Gemini risk the board direction, like obligatory expansion, as opposed to focus with a solitary supplier, Beginning. That would have secured financial backers significantly more than any late lawful activities. Chiefs across the computerized resource industry, like Brian Armstrong, have clamored for administrative lucidity before the current crypto winter started, however no expansive useful direction has been advertised.

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