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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) warning shot last week that decentralized finance (DeFi) could be thrown into its expanding definition<\/a> of what makes a securities exchange is the latest move to formalize what Chairman Gary Gensler has been saying: Crypto belongs in the securities world and will be regulated that way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The crypto industry had long pleaded for specific rules or guidance from the SEC that would give digital-assets businesses certainty about how to comply or properly steer clear of the agency\u2019s jurisdiction. The agency\u2019s decision to explicitly fold DeFi into its proposal for a new exchange definition further underlines that the crypto financial movement won\u2019t get tailored regulations. On the contrary, the agency is making targeted adjustments to its rules to ensure crypto will be held to existing securities regulations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe see this new technology, and we’re not willing to make any adjustments to accommodate it,\u201d SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said Monday on CoinDesk TV, further detailing her criticism of last week’s move, which she opposed. \u201cIf you don’t look exactly like incumbent firms, then we’re just going to be fine with killing you off or driving you offshore or forcing you to turn yourself into a centralized entity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The latest maneuver, in which the agency voted 3-2 to reopen an existing proposal to widen how it defines operations that need to be regulated as securities exchanges, is aimed at bringing in new technologies that would now include DeFi. To comply with this and other SEC initiatives, crypto operations would have to decide whether to make fundamental changes \u2013 such as increased centralization. Some of those changes could threaten what\u2019s different about their approach to money and investing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“The SEC is simply seeking to ban DeFi protocols in America,” said Jason Gottlieb, a lawyer with crypto clients at Morrison Cohen in New York. “In doing so, the SEC is substituting its own opinions for Congress’ prerogative on a major question, central to the future of the American economy.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gottlieb said the change “would sweep decentralized software protocols into a regulatory framework that was not built for them, and with which they literally, technologically cannot comply.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gensler stuck to his customary message as the commission voted on the exchange definition proposal, which is now open to a 30-day comment period before the rule can be finalized in another vote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cInvestors in the crypto markets must receive the same time-tested protections that the securities laws provide in all other markets,\u201d Gensler said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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His SEC has now mostly arrayed its pieces on the regulatory battlefield:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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