Coinbase legal boss Paul Grewal told SEC Chair Paul Atkins in a letter that his staff being unable to hold crypto is a roadblock for the agency’s Crypto Task Force.
Coinbase has urged the US Office of Government Ethics to remove a rule banning Securities and Exchange Commission staff from holding crypto.
SEC staff need to use crypto to better understand how it works and the best way to regulate it, Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal argued in open letters sent to OGE acting director Jamieson Greer and newly sworn-in SEC Chair Paul Atkins, which he shared to X on April 25.
“To regulate technology, you need to understand it. To understand technology, you need to use it,” Grewal said in the letter to Greer.
