{"id":4727,"date":"2025-03-15T10:41:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T10:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/vermont-drops-coinbase-staking-services-probe-as-feds-shift-crypto-stance\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T10:41:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T10:41:58","slug":"vermont-drops-coinbase-staking-services-probe-as-feds-shift-crypto-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/vermont-drops-coinbase-staking-services-probe-as-feds-shift-crypto-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont Drops Coinbase Staking Services Probe as Feds Shift Crypto Stance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation rescinded its show cause order against Coinbase, effectively ending its investigation into whether the crypto exchange\u2019s staking services violated the state\u2019s securities law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>\u201cAs we have always said: staking services are not securities,\u201d Paul Grewal, the chief legal officer for Coinbase, said on X. \u201cOur work isn\u2019t over. Congress must seize the bipartisan momentum we\u2019re seeing across the House and Senate to pass comprehensive legislation that takes into account the novel features of digital assets, such as staking. And the other states with staking actions should take a page from Vermont\u2019s playbook.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation rescinded its show cause order against Coinbase, effectively ending its investigation into whether the crypto exchange\u2019s staking services violated the state\u2019s securities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4658,878,1108,1630,359,1891,1082,5115,4408,5114],"class_list":["post-4727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-coinbase","tag-crypto","tag-drops","tag-feds","tag-probe","tag-services","tag-shift","tag-staking","tag-stance","tag-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}