{"id":29852,"date":"2025-06-02T18:31:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T18:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29852"},"modified":"2025-06-02T18:31:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T18:31:41","slug":"expert-applauds-secs-protocol-staking-clarity-boosting-crypto-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29852","title":{"rendered":"Expert Applauds SEC&#8217;s Protocol Staking Clarity, Boosting Crypto Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Experts commend the SEC&#8217;s statement clarifying that protocol staking on proof-of-stake networks does not constitute securities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/legal\/25\/05\/45471661\/coinbase-under-sec-investigation-for-overstatement-of-user-numbers\">fostering crypto innovation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>The Division of Corporation Finance&#8217;s guidance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/newsroom\/speeches-statements\/statement-certain-protocol-staking-activities-052925\">specifies<\/a> that staking activities on public, permissionless PoS networks, termed &#8220;Protocol Staking&#8221; are not investment contracts under the Howey test, as they lack entrepreneurial or managerial efforts from third parties.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with Benzinga, <strong>Kevin Liu<\/strong>, co-founder and CEO of <strong>GOAT Network<\/strong>, hailed the SEC&#8217;s stance as a &#8220;welcome advancement&#8221; for the crypto industry. <\/p>\n<p>He noted that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/06\/45731315\/expert-applauds-secs-protocol-staking-clarity-boosting-crypto-innovation\" alt=\"Expert\" applauds sec protocol staking clarity boosting crypto innovation>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts commend the SEC&#8217;s statement clarifying that protocol staking on proof-of-stake networks does not constitute securities, fostering crypto innovation. What Happened: The Division of Corporation Finance&#8217;s guidance specifies that staking activities on public, permissionless PoS networks, termed &#8220;Protocol Staking&#8221; are not investment contracts under the Howey test, as they lack entrepreneurial or managerial efforts from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-29852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}