Prometheum 的大门敞开，备受争议的公司测试加密代币作为证券

这家备受争议的公司对数字证券开放托管，并将 Optimism 和 The Graph 添加到其名单中，尽管大多数业内人士对大多数代币的证券标签持不同意见。

Prometheum, a crypto special-purpose broker dealer, has opened its doors for institutions to custody digital securities, adding Optimism and The Graph to its list.

Prometheum 是一家加密货币特殊用途经纪交易商，已向机构托管数字证券敞开大门，并将 Optimism 和 The Graph 添加到其名单中。

The move comes amid a broader industry dispute with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the agency's labeling of most tokens as securities.

此举正值美国证券交易委员会（SEC）因该机构将大多数代币标记为证券而引发更广泛的行业争议之际。

While Prometheum is testing its strategy to assume the SEC is right, most of the industry and prominent Republican lawmakers claim it's impossible to run such a crypto business under the existing securities laws.

虽然 Prometheum 正在测试其策略以假设 SEC 是正确的，但大多数行业和著名的共和党立法者声称，根据现有的证券法不可能经营这样的加密业务。

Prometheum is the first fully registered crypto special-purpose broker dealer under the SEC's rules and is licensed for clearing and settlement.

Prometheum 是第一家根据 SEC 规则完全注册的加密货币特殊用途经纪交易商，并获得清算和结算许可。

However, Prometheum hasn't yet disclosed any customers or revenue to prove its critics wrong.

然而，Prometheum 尚未披露任何客户或收入来证明其批评者是错误的。

Kaplan said there's been "an immense amount of interest" from potential users and issuers.

卡普兰表示，潜在用户和发行人对此“表现出了极大的兴趣”。

"We're trying to be the PayPal of the digital asset industry," said Aaron Kaplan, who shares the CEO duty with his brother.

“我们正在努力成为数字资产行业的 PayPal，”与他的兄弟共同担任首席执行官的亚伦·卡普兰 (Aaron Kaplan) 说道。

Prometheum Capital's addition of the tokens from Optimism, an Ethereum-based layer-two blockchain, and The Graph, a decentralized protocol for indexing and querying data from blockchains, was announced alongside the grand opening.

Prometheum Capital 在盛大开业的同时宣布添加来自 Optimism（基于以太坊的第二层区块链）和 The Graph（用于索引和查询区块链数据的去中心化协议）的代币。

"This is just the beginning," Benjamin Kaplan said of the launch with five eligible tokens. "We're going to have quite a full vending machine."

“这只是一个开始，”本杰明·卡普兰在谈到推出五个符合条件的代币时说道。 “我们将拥有一台满载的自动售货机。”

The company does not yet have a public timeline for launching trading and settlement services.

该公司尚未公布推出交易和结算服务的公开时间表。

When asked whether the company has had any clear conversations with the regulator over whether its approach is viable, Kaplan declined to detail interactions except to say Prometheum communicates with the SEC in the normal course of business.

当被问及该公司是否与监管机构就其方法是否可行进行过明确对话时，Kaplan 拒绝透露具体互动细节，只是表示 Prometheum 在正常业务过程中与 SEC 进行沟通。

An SEC spokesman declined a request for comment on the agency's view of Prometheum's custody operation.

SEC 发言人拒绝就该机构对 Prometheum 托管业务的看法置评。

The business' survival represents one of a handful of crucial industry tests, which would also include the outcome of a number of federal court battles.

该企业的生存是少数关键的行业考验之一，其中还包括一些联邦法院诉讼的结果。

In Prometheum's case, if the SEC accepts its business model, that could prove it's possible to run a crypto platform under current laws, as argued by SEC Chair Gary Gensler.

正如 SEC 主席 Gary Gensler 所说，就 Prometheum 而言，如果 SEC 接受其商业模式，这可能证明在现行法律下运行加密平台是可能的。

But if the SEC puts a stop to it, it counters the years-old argument from the agency that digital assets businesses need only comply with the laws to satisfy the agency.

但如果 SEC 制止这一行为，就会反驳该机构多年来的论点，即数字资产企业只需遵守法律即可满足该机构的要求。

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Rostin Behnam said in congressional testimony this year that a move from the SEC that validates Prometheum's treatment of ETH as a security will throw into question the longstanding position of CFTC-regulated firms that it's a commodity.

商品期货交易委员会主席 Rostin Behnam 在今年的国会证词中表示，SEC 验证 Prometheum 将 ETH 作为证券对待的举措将使 CFTC 监管的公司长期以来将其视为商品的立场受到质疑。

"We're not here to fight the battle between regulators," Benjamin Kaplan said. "We're proceeding under the federal securities laws as we believe it's the best framework to protect customers."

“我们不是来打监管机构之间的斗争的，”本杰明·卡普兰说。 “我们正在根据联邦证券法行事，因为我们相信这是保护客户的最佳框架。”