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So Binance and the SEC jointly filed for a stay on their ongoing court battle, which would — if approved — give the two parties two months to pause and figure out this new era. 

Shocked? You shouldn’t be.

Last month, Haynes Boone partner Matthew Frankle told Empire that he wouldn’t be surprised to see a bunch of the crypto-focused cases filed by a former SEC focused on regulation by enforcement dropped. 

So it also wouldn’t be surprising to see this type of stay filed in a case like Coinbase’s. After all, both Binance and Coinbase have been fighting the SEC for a few years now,…

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