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Crypto wallets used to mean one thing: self-custody. Users held their keys, owned their assets, and stayed off the radar of traditional finance. Phantom's Mar. 17 no-action relief from the CFTC's Market Participants Division rewrites that definition. The letter allows Phantom to serve as the consumer interface for regulated derivatives without registering as an introducing […] The post Regulatory red tape ripped away from crypto wallets, granting direct access to derivatives appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal and Base founder Jesse Pollak argued that Layer-2 (L2) sequencers constitute infrastructure rather than exchanges. Their statements contradict the current regulatory stance, considering SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has previously warned that centralized matching engines may face exchange registration requirements. Grewal compared Base’s sequencer to Amazon Web Services in a […] The post Regulatory uncertainty clouds layer-2 sequencers as industry and SEC differ appeared first on CryptoSlate.