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The narrative

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced charges against crypto exchange Kraken on Thursday, alleging its offering of a crypto staking-as-a-service program amounted to offering unregistered securities products in the U.S. For registration for the next editions. (CoinDesk was the first to report this news.)

To deal with the charges, Kraken paid $30 million and closed all his staking services in the United States.

The action’s raised a number of questions about what this means for staking at large in the U.S.

Before we get further into this, it’s worth defining some terms. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reported on Thursday charges against Kraken Crypto Exchange, claiming that its offering of a crypto staking program as a service was equivalent to offering securities products not registered in the United States.why it mattersthe action’s raised a number of questions about what this means for staking at large in the u.s.before we get further into this, There are certain terms that are worth defining. The action raised a number of issues on what this means for staking in general in the United States. Before we go any further, there are some words that are worth defining.

Evidence of the issue is a consensus mechanism in which nodes are supported by persons who lock, or "stake out", their crypto.

It differs from the consensus mechanisms of proof of work in this rather than putting the energy and power of computation to secure the blockchain, you put your "money." staking got a growing amount of attention over the past few years, particularly in 2022 following Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency network in the world, Shift from proof of work to proof of participation.

Breaking it down

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong raised the alarm on Wednesday when he tweeted about rumors the SEC was targeting retail staking at large.

Breaking it downcoinbase ceo brian armstrong sounded the alarm on Wednesday when he tweeted about rumours the second focused on detailed staking in general.

Let’s look at SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s own past remarks to set a bit of a baseline here: In September he said staking could meet the parameters of the Howey Test.

He highlighted intermediaries in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, saying staking through an intermediary “looks very similar – with some changes of labeling – to lending.”

Let’s look at SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s own past remarks to set a bit of a baseline here: In September he said staking could meet the parameters of the Howey Test.

He pointed out the middlemen in an interview at the Wall Street Journal, saying that staking by an intermediary "looks a lot like – with a few labelling changes – the loan."

Canada Post President and Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong sounded the alarm on Wednesday when he tweeted about rumours that the SEC was targeting retail staking as a whole.he highlighted intermediaries in an interview with the wall street journal, Say that staking by an intermediary "closely resembles—with some labelling changes—the loan". some of the major issues bounce around after the kraken ad (and, frankly, tweet from Armstrong) include if the second goes past any staking in the United States, how crypto companies can actually offer staking services and if the sec would offer advice to companies that hope to offer services without attracting the ire of the agency, at a news conference following the announcement of the deal, told journalists that the agency essentially considers the provision of a staking service to be similar to any other form of safety.

To put it another way, businesses interested in providing staking services should register with the regulator as a securities platform, obtain approval from the Financial Division of the Corporation to offer the product and file regular returns.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, in one of her most fiery dissents to date, pointed out that the mere act of registering may be more complex than at first glance.

Commissioner hester peirce, in one of his most vocal dissensions to date, stressed that simply registering can be more complicated than at first sight.

'An offer such as this one raises a lot of complex issues, Even if the staking schedule as a set would be recorded or if the staking program for each token would be recorded separately and what would be the accounting impact for Kraken," she said.

The grievors refused to say whether the matter affected staking in general. Another element of the lawsuit that the filed sec against Kraken noted that the company has determined what sequencing rewards would be for users.

Trading wasn't just about sending protocol awards to Kraken's investors. As attorney Gabe Shapiro points out, this likely “does make a big difference legally.”

Maybe that's an important thing.

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