SEC對Meme Coin指導提出了質疑，因為立法者要求對政治聯繫的透明度

美國參議員伊麗莎白·沃倫（D-MA）和美國代表傑克·奧辛克洛斯（D-MA）正式質疑美國證券交易委員會（SEC）最近在Meme Coins上的立場

U.S. lawmakers are demanding answers from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after the agency excluded meme coins from oversight, a move that comes as scams in the sector are soaring and former President Trump and the First Lady launched their own tokens.

在該機構將Meme Coins排除在監督之外之後，美國立法者要求提供證券交易委員會（SEC）的答案，這一舉動隨著該部門的騙局而飛漲，前總統特朗普和第一夫人推出了自己的代幣。

In a letter to Acting SEC Chair Mark T. Uyeda on Friday, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) challenged the Division of Corporate Finance’s Feb. 27 Staff Statement, which stated that meme coin transactions are not covered by federal securities law.

週五，參議員伊麗莎白·沃倫（Elizabeth Warren）（D-MA）和代表傑克·奧辛克洛斯（Jake Auchincloss）（D-MA）在給代理SEC主席馬克·烏耶達（Mark T. Uyeda）的一封信中提出了質疑公司財務部2月27日的員工聲明，該公司表示，該公司的工作人員交易不受聯邦證券法的涵蓋。

The timing of the announcement was questioned by the lawmakers, who stated: “The Staff Statement comes just weeks after President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump launched their own meme coins, TRUMP and MELANIA, and conveniently presents a legal interpretation that could shield the President’s and First Lady’s coins from regulatory scrutiny.”

議員們對這一宣布的時機提出了質疑，他說：“工作人員聲明是在特朗普總統和第一夫人梅拉尼亞·特朗普發起了自己的模因硬幣，特朗普和梅拉尼亞之後的幾週，並便利地提出了一種法律解釋，可以保護總統和第一夫人的硬幣免受監管審查。”

While noting that Congress should provide the SEC with clear direction on how to regulate meme coins, they argued that the agency has a responsibility to take steps to protect consumers, not to serve the financial interests of political figures, especially given the prevalence of scams in meme coin markets.

他們指出，國會應為SEC提供有關如何規範模因硬幣的明確指導，但他們認為該機構有責任採取措施來保護消費者，而不是為政治人物的財務利益服務，特別是考慮到Meme Coin Coin Markets中騙局的普遍性。

The legislators highlighted several concerning statistics about consumer harm in the meme coin sector, asserting that: 40% of meme coin sales are related to market manipulation tactics, such as ‘pump-and-dump’ schemes, in which sellers inflate a coin’s price and then sell their holdings at the peak, causing the coin’s value to plummet for all other buyers; another 30% of meme coin sales are ‘rug-pull’ scams, a scheme in which a coin’s developers abandon the token after taking all users’ investment funds—consumers lost $500 million to this type of scheme in 2024; and meme coins are also frequently used for other fraudulent activity, including phishing scams and pyramid schemes.

立法者強調了有關模因硬幣行業消費者傷害的統計數據的幾項，斷言：40％的Meme硬幣銷售與市場操縱策略有關，例如“泵送和降低”計劃，其中賣方將硬幣的價格膨脹，然後在峰值上出售其峰值，從而使Coin的價值在所有其他購買者中銷售，從而使Coin的價值銷售；另外30％的Meme硬幣銷售額是“ Rug-Pull”騙局，該計劃在該計劃中，在拿走了所有用戶的投資基金後，硬幣的開發商放棄了代幣 - 消費者在2024年對這類計劃損失了5億美元；模因硬幣也經常用於其他欺詐活動，包括網絡釣魚騙局和金字塔方案。

Moreover, the lawmakers criticized the SEC for rolling back enforcement, stating that the Staff Statement is, notably, just one of many recent SEC actions aiming to arbitrarily deregulate the cryptocurrency industry. In just the past two months, for example, the SEC has dropped ten major lawsuits and investigations against cryptocurrency platforms such as Coinbase, Binance, and Kraken.

此外，立法者批評SEC撤銷執法，並指出，員工聲明尤其是最近許多SEC的行動之一，旨在任意監管加密貨幣行業。例如，在過去的兩個月中，SEC已經對Coinbase，Binance和Kraken等加密貨幣平台進行了十項重大訴訟和調查。

The lawmakers concluded by demanding detailed explanations from the SEC, including all communications between the agency and the White House or the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets regarding the Staff Statement and whether the SEC had received any directives from that group; clarity on why the Division issued a Staff Statement instead of a formal rule or guidance; and whether the TRUMP and MELANIA coins qualify under the memo’s definition of meme coins. Additionally, they requested a list of tokens that were evaluated during the drafting process and asked the agency to define what separates meme coins from other cryptocurrencies. The lawmakers pressed for a response by March 28.

議員們以SEC的詳細說明進行了詳細的解釋，包括該機構與白宮之間的所有溝通，或有關員工聲明的數字資產市場工作組以及SEC是否已收到該小組的任何指令；清楚為什麼該部門發出員工聲明而不是正式規則或指導；特朗普和梅拉尼亞硬幣是否根據備忘錄的模因硬幣的定義有資格。此外，他們要求在起草過程中評估的令牌清單，並要求該機構定義將模因硬幣與其他加密貨幣區分開的原因。議員們在3月28日之前敦促回應。