• SEC reportedly seeks an extension to February 2025 for it to supply case paperwork to Coinbase.
• Coinbase, Binance and Kraken all going through SEC lawsuits.

The US Securities and Trade Fee has filed for an extension from the court docket, asking for extra time because it appears to supply paperwork associated to its case in opposition to crypto alternate Coinbase. Cointelegraph reported this on Sept. 19

SEC asks for extension

Courtroom paperwork filed on Sept. 18 reveal that the SEC needs the court docket to increase the timeline for them to furnish Coinbase with key materials by 4 months.

The regulator filed its request on the US District Courtroom for the Southern District of New York, and if granted, will see it have till February 2025 for the deadline to share over 133,000 paperwork.

SEC’s court docket submitting comes a month to the tip of the preliminary timeline on Oct. 18, which is when the securities watchdog was handy over paperwork as a part of the case’s discovery proceedings part. In accordance with the regulator, an extension will enable it to provide the mandatory paperwork.

SEC has sued a number of crypto corporations

These newest developments within the SEC vs. Coinbase lawsuit provides to a number of others in latest months and weeks. It contains court docket filings and verdicts within the regulator’s instances in opposition to crypto exchanges Binance and Kraken, that are the opposite main business gamers in a authorized battle with the SEC.

Each the courts and US lawmakers have taken situation with the SEC’s use of the time period “digital asset securities’. That is a part of the primary allegations in opposition to crypto exchanges, with the regulator alleging securities legal guidelines violations by these corporations.

The time period ‘digital asset security’ doesn’t seem anyplace in any regulation enacted by Congress or in any rule promulgated by the SEC or in any determination rendered by the Supreme Courtroom. It seems nowhere within the 2 million pages of the Federal Register. If it comes from neither statute… pic.twitter.com/ucSaCzEvOU

— Rep. Ritchie Torres (@RepRitchie) September 19, 2024

In 2020, the company sued Ripple Labs over the XRP cryptocurrency – a case that dragged for 3 years earlier than a notable ruling in July 2023 declared XRP not a safety. The regulator additionally reached a $4 billion settlement with Terraform Labs.

A decide denied Kraken’s movement to dismiss the SEC’s lawsuit agaisnt the alternate in August this yr.