The SEC Is Getting Clearer About How It Plans to Regulate Crypto

The filing in August said Grayscale received a memorandum from its “external securities lawyer,” which led the company to feel comfortable in saying those three cryptocurrencies aren’t securities, but nevertheless, based on what the SEC has said, Grayscale “acknowledges that ZEC [etc.] may currently be a security, based on the facts as they exist today, or may in the future be found by the SEC or a federal court to by a security under the federal securities laws.”