Gina Moon is General Counsel at Paradigm. Prior to Paradigm, Gina was General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at OpenSea, where she ran the legal & policy teams. Before that, she served as a product counsel, litigator, and regulatory lawyer at Facebook and Uber. Gina began her career at Gibson Dunn and clerked for the Honorable William Alsup in the Northern District of California. She currently serves on the board of Planned Parenthood Northern California. Gina received her J.D. from Columbia University and her B.A. in Science, Technology & Society from Stanford University.


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Justin Slaughter is the VP of Regulatory Affairs at Paradigm. Prior to joining Paradigm, Justin was Director of the office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs and Senior Advisor to Acting Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Allison Herren Lee. Justin has also served as Chief Policy Advisor and Special Counsel to former Commissioner Sharon Bowen at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and General Counsel to Senator Edward J. Markey. Justin has also served as a consultant in private practice focusing on fintech and smaller technology companies, and he began his career as a law clerk to Judge Jerome Farris on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Justin has a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

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Rodrigo Seira

 in SEC v. Kraken, the latest in the litany of SEC “regulation by enforcement” actions taken by the Commission on major U.S. crypto exchanges. As we have said on 

, the SEC’s approach here is wrongheaded and contrary to clear legal precedent. The SEC cannot simply will that all tokens are securities simply because it wants them to be. The SEC’s legal analysis on why these tokens are securities is lacking, and this case will not absolve the SEC or the rest of the government from the need to craft a workable, comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto.

What is needed more than ever is comprehensive legislation that covers all aspects of digital assets and lets this industry grow here in the U.S. The Kraken action is a distraction from that important goal.

Paradigm filed an amicus brief in SEC vs. Kraken that supplements the arguments made by Kraken and explains, once again, why the SEC's approach is unsupported by case law and is an unlawful attempt to grant itself new and unpermitted regulatory authority.

Paradigm Files Amicus Brief in SEC v. Kraken