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SEC Investigates Coinbase Amid Suspicion of Inflated User Metrics

SEC Investigates Coinbase Amid Suspicion of Inflated User Metrics

Author:
Coindesk
Published:
2025-05-15 18:09:13
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SEC Is Probing Coinbase Over User Number Misstatement Concern

Regulators sharpen knives—again—as crypto’s poster child faces scrutiny over potentially cooked books.

Subheader: The ’trust us, we’re decentralized’ defense hits a wall

Coinbase’s latest headache isn’t market volatility—it’s the SEC demanding answers about whether those rosy user growth numbers were too good to be true. Because when your compliance team costs more than a small country’s GDP, you’d better not fudge the stats.

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