Upcoming Webinar—“You Won’t Know the Answer Until We Come After You”: Traversing the Crypto Regulatory Minefield

Wednesday, October 15, 2024, 2:00 p.m. EST

Panelists:
Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer, Coinbase
Corbin K. Barthold, Internet Policy Counsel and Director of Appellate Litigation, TechFreedom

About:
In 2022, Coinbase petitioned the SEC for guidance on how to comply with federal securities law. Instead of acting on the petition, the SEC sued Coinbase for alleged securities violations. As a federal judge recently put it, the SEC's response to Coinbase's request was, in effect, "You won't know the answer until we come after you." This ordeal is emblematic of the crypto industry's struggle to placate hostile regulators and make sense of rules that long predate the advent of blockchain technology. In this crossover event with the Tech Policy Podcast, Paul Grewal, Coinbase's chief legal officer, tells Corbin Barthold, internet policy counsel at TechFreedom, about his company's quest for legal clarity.