The request from the Office of the United States Attorney follows the 2019 indictment of Anthony Tyler Nashatka.
More than $294,000-worth of cryptocurrency confiscated from the teenage hacker of EtherDelta and TalkTalk has been auctioned off.
The SEC would like to establish jurisdiction over crypto assets but this is only appropriate where there are legally enforceable contracts between legal entities, argues Edan Yago.
The SEC's settlement with the founder of EtherDelta is likely the first of many enforcement actions to come against crypto token exchanges.
The SEC has charged Zachary Coburn, founder of EtherDelta, with running an unregistered national securities exchange.