Coinbase Falls After JPMorgan Downgrades Stock to Underweight on Disappointing Bitcoin ETF Catalyst
The bitcoin ETF catalyst that pushed the ecosystem out of its crypto winter last year will disappoint investors in 2024, the report said.
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The bitcoin ETF catalyst that pushed the ecosystem out of its crypto winter last year will disappoint investors in 2024, the report said.
Last summer, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued crypto exchanges Coinbase and Binance, alleging they listed and traded unregistered securities in the form of various cryptocurrencies. This week, the regulator’s legal teams faced the exchanges in court as the companies argued the SEC did not make the case that those cryptos are securities.
The toys figured strongly in arguments over securities law, but will the case answer fundamental questions about crypto’s future.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) case against Coinbase delves into a ton of complexity, but before anything else, a judge has to decide whether transactions in about a dozen tokens traded on the U.S. exchange were securities.
Coinbase is about to make its case in a federal courtroom that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is wrong about its legal arguments that the crypto exchange has been trading unregistered securities. What the New York judge does next could have serious consequences for the wider industry’s clashes with the regulator.
A majority of bitcoin ETF issuers have chosen Coinbase as a custodian, which is a concentration of risk. Even if that is the safest option, new cybersecurity standards are needed for making crypto custody truly safe.
The crypto exchange has a dominant role in all but one of the approved ETFs, acting as an issuer or custodian, the report said.
ARK Invest has a target of no individual stock surpassing 10% weighting of an ETF’s value. COIN doubled in price in the last three months of 2023, bringing about consistent sales of the crypto exchange’s stock by ARK.
COIN constitutes a 10.34% weighting of ARK’s Innovation ETF, a stake worth over $872.5 million.
Coinbase’s Nasdaq-listed stock fell 2.96% Wednesday to $152.24 as the crypto market’s rally halted.