SEC对Meme Coin指导提出了质疑，因为立法者要求对政治联系的透明度

美国参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦（D-MA）和美国代表杰克·奥辛克洛斯（D-MA）正式质疑美国证券交易委员会（SEC）最近在Meme Coins上的立场

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.

在该机构将Meme Coins排除在监督之外之后，美国立法者要求提供证券交易委员会（SEC）的答案，这一举动随着该部门的骗局而飞涨，前总统特朗普和第一夫人推出了自己的代币。

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.

周五，参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦（Elizabeth Warren）（D-MA）和代表杰克·奥辛克洛斯（Jake Auchincloss）（D-MA）在给代理SEC主席马克·乌耶达（Mark T. Uyeda）的一封信中提出了质疑公司财务部2月27日的员工声明，该公司表示，该公司的工作人员交易不受联邦证券法的涵盖。

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.”

议员们对这一宣布的时机提出了质疑，他说：“工作人员声明是在特朗普总统和第一夫人梅拉尼亚·特朗普发起了自己的模因硬币，特朗普和梅拉尼亚之后的几周，并便利地提出了一种法律解释，可以保护总统和第一夫人的硬币免受监管审查。”

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.

他们指出，国会应为SEC提供有关如何规范模因硬币的明确指导，但他们认为该机构有责任采取措施来保护消费者，而不是为政治人物的财务利益服务，特别是考虑到Meme Coin Coin Markets中骗局的普遍性。

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.

立法者强调了有关模因硬币行业消费者伤害的统计数据的几项，断言：40％的Meme硬币销售与市场操纵策略有关，例如“泵送和降低”计划，其中卖方将硬币的价格膨胀，然后在峰值上出售其峰值，从而使Coin的价值在所有其他购买者中销售，从而使Coin的价值销售；另外30％的Meme硬币销售额是“ Rug-Pull”骗局，该计划在该计划中，在拿走了所有用户的投资基金后，硬币的开发商放弃了代币 - 消费者在2024年对这类计划损失了5亿美元；模因硬币也经常用于其他欺诈活动，包括网络钓鱼骗局和金字塔方案。

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，立法者批评SEC撤销执法，并指出，员工声明尤其是最近许多SEC的行动之一，旨在任意监管加密货币行业。例如，在过去的两个月中，SEC已经对Coinbase，Binance和Kraken等加密货币平台进行了十项重大诉讼和调查。

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.

议员们以SEC的详细说明进行了详细的解释，包括该机构与白宫之间的所有沟通，或有关员工声明的数字资产市场工作组以及SEC是否已收到该小组的任何指令；清楚为什么该部门发出员工声明而不是正式规则或指导；特朗普和梅拉尼亚硬币是否根据备忘录的模因硬币的定义有资格。此外，他们要求在起草过程中评估的令牌清单，并要求该机构定义将模因硬币与其他加密货币区分开的原因。议员们在3月28日之前敦促回应。