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Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin says the strength of the crypto ecosystem \u201chas never been better or stronger.\u201d He believes \u201cmore clarity\u201d from regulators would be helpful for the crypto industry. \u201cI think our industry has suffered from having two major factions lumped into one: the money-crypto faction \u2026 and the tech-crypto faction,\u201d he explained.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ethereum\u2019s Co-Founder on Crypto Ecosystem, Regulation<\/h2>\n

Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin discussed the state of the crypto ecosystem, regulation, and whether ether (ETH<\/a>) is a security in an interview with CNBC last Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe strength of our ecosystem has never been better or stronger,\u201d he began. While noting that \u201cThere are certainly headwinds \u2014 some microeconomic, financial headwinds \u2014 out in the world,\u201d as well as \u201cbanking issues for a small number of companies\u201d in the crypto space, he emphasized: \u201cThe sizes of the conferences that are going on in Paris and Denver and Los Angeles have never been bigger.\u201d The Ethereum co-founder added:<\/p>\n

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Once the builders come into our ecosystem to build essentially an alternative economy, they don\u2019t leave. The speculators run in and they run out, but the building has never been better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Commenting on why the prices of bitcoin and ether have been rising, he said: \u201cBecause they\u2019re sound. Bitcoin is sound money. Ether is ultrasound money \u2026 the development, the use cases, the usability, the scalability in the Ethereum ecosystem \u2014 it\u2019s never been better. It\u2019s accelerating.\u201d Lubin also noted that the possibility of the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates less aggressively in the future has helped boost the prices of cryptocurrencies. \u201cIt\u2019s an inflation hedge,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

Regarding cryptocurrency regulation and the aggressive enforcement actions by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Ethereum co-founder opined:<\/p>\n

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I think more clarity, being more explicit would be helpful to our industry. I think our industry has suffered from having two major factions lumped into one: the money crypto faction \u2026 and the tech crypto faction, which is just building decentralized protocols infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While noting that \u201cMoney crypto absolutely should be regulated\u201d and \u201cMoney crypto people issued tokens that are rightly seen as securities,\u201d he argued: \u201cTech crypto people are just technologists. We are just building infrastructure that the traditional economy can use, and our economy can use, and you don\u2019t want to regulate innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is Ether a Security?<\/h2>\n

Lubin also commented on regulators alleging that ether is a security. Responding to the claim made by the New York Attorney General in its lawsuit<\/a> against crypto exchange Kucoin that ETH<\/a> is a security, the Ethereum co-founder said: \u201cAnybody can say anything, it doesn\u2019t make it true.\u201d<\/p>\n

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler has stated several times that all crypto tokens besides bitcoin<\/a> are securities \u201cbecause there\u2019s a group in the middle and the public is anticipating profits based on that group.\u201d Lubin argued:<\/p>\n

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People buy barrels of oil with the expectation of profit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When asked whether he is confident that ether is not a security, the Ethereum co-founder replied: \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any point to speculate on something that is extremely unlikely.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are differing opinions among U.S. regulators about whether ether should be classified as a security. SEC Chair Gensler believes that ETH<\/a> is a security, while the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has stated multiple times that it is a commodity<\/a>. However, both regulators agree that bitcoin is a commodity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What do you think about the statements by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin? Let us know in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nKevin Helms <\/h6>\n

\nA student of Austrian Economics, Kevin found Bitcoin in 2011 and has been an evangelist ever since. His interests lie in Bitcoin security, open-source systems, network effects and the intersection between economics and cryptography.

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