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SEC breaks from past policy guidelines in Uniswap crackdown

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Ana Paula Pereira6 hours agoSEC breaks from past policy guidelines in Uniswap crackdownThe U.S. SEC Wells notice against Uniswap raises questions about consistency in policy enforcement.11240 Total views9 Total sharesListen to article 0:00NewsOwn this piece of crypto historyCollect this article as NFTJoin us on social networksThe United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is contradicting years of its own policy guidelines in the latest action against decentralized crypto exchange Uniswap, said Cinneamhain Ventures’ Adam Cochran. 


In a legal analysis on X (formerly Twitter), Cochran referred to several previous decisions by the U.S. regulator over the definition of an exchange and what it means for Uniswap’s potential legal battle.Source: Adam Cochran


The SEC has previously issued No-Action Letters in 1986, 1991, and 1997 for entities seeking guidance on routing and matching trades electronically. According to Cochran, the entities were “looking to establish their first system for routing and matching trades electronically. They were concerned that would make them an “exchange.”“But the SEC concluded that because the execution was on a separate system that matching, routing, communicating and ordering as a “computer service system” did not meet the holistic definition of “an exchange.”


Another precedent that contradicts the SEC relates to the classification of front-ends as an exchange. The regulator’s guidance in letters from 1989 and 1990 was that an interface that displays and communicates with an exchange is not in itself an exchange.


“The SEC guidance found that because these interfaces, even though they profited from bringing together buyers and sellers to exchange explicit securities the fact that the settlement and payment happened elsewhere meant these interfaces were not exchanges,” explained the venture capitalist.Source: Adam Cochran


Cochran also noted that in 1998, on the SEC No-Act. LEXIS 18, the Commission declared the matter settled and would no longer respond to No-Action Letter requests.


In addition, connecting buyers and sellers does not constitute an exchange. The SEC provided this guidance to companies in 1979, 1996 and 1999, according to Cochran’s analysis.“The exchange needed to involve the legal transfer of the assets and/or finances. So even though a buyer on Uniswap may commit to a purchase, by signing a transaction with their private key the Uniswap Labs frontend, isn’t what’s settling it.”


Another relevant point in the analysis concerns asset listing. In 1998, the Commission found that having an electronic system for common stocks that are not listed on an existing exchange does not constitute an exchange, regardless of whether fees are charged.“In this case, the commission found that once again, so long as their informational interface was no clearing and settling these transactions, then just because it was the primary listing location of an asset, it was not somehow more of an exchange.”SEC’s Wells notice


Uniswap enables automated token exchanges on the Ethereum blockchain, allowing users to swap multiple crypto tokens without using traditional intermediaries.


Uniswap Labs, Uniswap’s main developer, has been under regulatory scrutiny since 2021. On April 10, however, the platform was served a Wells notice — a formal notification that the regulator’s staff intends to recommend enforcement action.


Uniswap Labs previously claimed that it was only responsible for developing the app’s front-end portal. According to Labs" team, the front-end is separate from the Uniswap protocol itself, which is autonomous code released for public use.


Cochran’s analysis backs up these claims. According to him, the front-end and the smart contract are separate elements in a crypto trade.


“In fact, we know these elements are distinct, because you can execute trades on the smart contract through other interfaces (like Etherscan or swap aggregators), or even directly through a node.”


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