I know little by way of the crypto world, but I have to say that calling platforms like FTX, Binance, and others "exchanges" strikes me as very much misleading.
In traditional finance, the "exchange", as in "the New York Stock Exchange", only facilitates the calculation of market prices for a range of assets and the matching between sellers and buyers. Exchanges don't even manipulate money - that's left to other, highly regulated, professions, such as brokers.
Brokers hold your assets and sometimes lend you money, but are very restricted with what they can do with it unless they qualify as banks, which requires complying with an array of complex capital requirements.
So really, I don't understand: how are those entities not offering "investment services" and so not under SEC supervision?
In traditional finance, the "exchange", as in "the New York Stock Exchange", only facilitates the calculation of market prices for a range of assets and the matching between sellers and buyers. Exchanges don't even manipulate money - that's left to other, highly regulated, professions, such as brokers.
Brokers hold your assets and sometimes lend you money, but are very restricted with what they can do with it unless they qualify as banks, which requires complying with an array of complex capital requirements.
So really, I don't understand: how are those entities not offering "investment services" and so not under SEC supervision?