Coinbase collided with the SEC Monday as the crypto exchange giant continues to push the Wall Street regulator for crypto-centric rulemaking, which the Commission has refused.

The Third Circuit Court grilled the SEC for not giving a solid reason when it denied Coinbase’s request for clear crypto regulations. Coinbase asked the SEC to create specific rules for crypto assets in July 2022, but the SEC rejected the request with a vague two-page denial.

The SEC’s reasons for denying a Coinbase Inc. petition for rules governing the cryptocurrency industry were “sparse” and “pretty close to vacuous,” a Third Circuit judge told an attorney for the agency at oral argument Monday.

The US Third Circuit Court of Appeals will on Monday hear Coinbase's arguments against the Securities and Exchange's (SEC) denial of its petition to propose new rules for cryptocurrency regulation.

Coinbase and the U.S. securities regulator faced off in a federal appeals court in Philadelphia on Monday as the cryptocurrency exchange presses the agency to create new rules for digital assets. Coinbase,

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc. urged a federal appeals court to force the US Securities and Exchange Commission to create new rules that would govern digital assets and help end a long legal fight between the industry and regulators.

Coinbase Global (COIN) asks an appeals court to overturn SEC's denial of its petition for new crypto rules, saying the current framework is 'impossible.'

Judges in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals had tough questions for the Securities and Exchange Commission today in the lawsuit where the crypto exchange Coinbase has demanded new rulemaking for the blockchain industry.