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SEC’s crypto staking crackdown has uncertain consequences for DeFi: Lido Finance

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A crackdown by the US securities regulator on crypto staking might have unintended penalties for decentralized finance, based on the pinnacle of enterprise improvement at Lido DAO.   

 Jacob Blish — who leads enterprise improvement at Lido’s decentralized autonomous organization — advised Bloomberg in a Feb. 13 report that essentially the most important danger could be if the SEC finally concluded that no U.S. citizen can work together with crypto staking companies, together with protocols.

“The largest danger I personally see as a U.S.-based particular person is that if they arrive down and say you may not even work together with or contribute to some of these protocols.”

“Then me, as a contributor to the DAO, does that imply I can’t work on Lido anymore? Do I’ve to go go away and do one thing else?” Blish added.

The governance of Lido is managed by the Lido DAO with members from all around the world voting on vital choices that steer the protocol.

Within the wake of the SEC launching lawsuits and other enforcement actions in opposition to crypto corporations, Blish joined a rising variety of folks within the crypto trade calling for extra transparency around regulations and guidelines going ahead, saying:

“Probably the most disappointing factor is we as an trade hold getting requested for transparency, however then me as a U.S. citizen, I get no transparency and the way [regulator’s] decision-making course of goes.”

On Feb. 9 the SEC charged crypto trade Kraken with “failing to register the provide and sale of their crypto-asset staking-as-a-service program,” prompting the trade to halt offering staking to its U.S. clients.

The SEC’s newest motion noticed Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong defend staking in a Feb. 9 tweet, saying it would be “a terrible path for the U.S.” if a staking ban was to happen.

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Coinbase chief authorized officer Paul Grewal constructed on Armstrong’s tweets on Feb. 10, asking for clearer guidelines for the trade.

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“The general public shouldn’t should parse complaints in federal courtroom to grasp what a regulator expects,” Grewal stated.