Responding to a hypothetical state of affairs on Twitter, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that the corporate would shut down its Ethereum staking providers to protect the blockchain community’s integrity, within the occasion of a regulatory crackdown.
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- The hypothetical query was posted on Sunday by Lefteris Karapetsas, founding father of Rotki, an open-source crypto analytics, and accounting app, tagging main corporations like Coinbase, Kraken, Lido Finance, Staked, and Bitcoin Suisse.
- Karapetsas requested the businesses how they’d reply if regulators would ask them to censor on the Ethereum protocol stage with their validators, providing two potentialities: “A) Comply and censor at protocol stage” or “B) Shut down the staking service and protect community integrity.”
- Armstrong responded on Thursday, writing: “It’s a hypothetical we hopefully gained’t really face. But when we did we’d go together with B I believe. Obtained to deal with the larger image.”
- The Coinbase CEO additional added {that a} third and higher possibility might also current itself: “There could also be some higher possibility (C) or a authorized problem as properly that would assist attain a greater end result.”
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