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S.E on today's show. We got Will Foxley and David Morris. I forget who started us off.

It's me. This is some of the bigger news out there. Coinbase is being investigated by the SEC

for potentially violating securities listings laws. Of course, Coinbase is one of the

largest exchanges in the world and probably the most dominant within the United States as well.

It's basically a household name at this point. The SEC is looking into its 200 or so coins that

it has listed over the history of the exchange. Following comments from Coinbase are also interesting.

Their chief legal officer,

Paul Grewell, said in response, that we are confident that our rigorous diligence process,

a process the SEC has already reviewed, keep securities off our platform. We can look forward to engaging with the SEC on the matter. Of course, this also comes after last week's news,

where three individuals

were charged by both the Department of Justice and the SEC for violating securities laws

by insider trading. David, I want to throw this one to you. This has huge implications, I should say,

for just digital assets base in general, because everything runs through as an exchange, right? Everything touches an exchange at some point. And so if they're going after

Coinbase, this could mean so much for so many tokens that are out there. Yeah, absolutely.

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