
KEY POINTS
- Coinbase petitioned for the SEC to engage in new rulemaking targeted at the crypto industry
- The SEC refused the request in December, months after it filed a lawsuit against Coinbase
- Two judges raised concerns Monday about the SEC's seemingly 'vacuous' reasoning in its denial of crypto rulemaking
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been on a years-long crackdown of cryptocurrency, and among the biggest cases followed by the digital assets community is the lawsuit against crypto exchange giant Coinbase in mid-2023.