Amid guilty pleas by Binance and its founder, Changpeng Zhao, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the developments could spur greater regulatory certainty going forward.  

“Today’s news reinforces that doing it the hard way was the right decision,” Armstrong said in a Tuesday X post.

The post came at roughly 3 pm ET — the original scheduled time for a Department of Justice press conference to announce “significant cryptocurrency enforcement actions.”

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