In an interview with The Wall Street Journal about the SEC lawsuit, Brian Armstrong, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, argued that Coinbase does not need these registrations to operate. “The assets we trade, those are commodities, so they don’t need those registrations.” He also denied that Coinbase claims to be a broker-dealer, but noted that its broker-dealer license has not yet been approved. "We don't claim to be a broker-dealer, we have a broker-dealer license that is still d...