The Crypto Security Debate Goes to Court

The Crypto Security Debate Goes to Court

WASHINGTON—Investors are asking the courts to decide an existential question for the cryptocurrency industry: whether digital tokens are, for legal purposes, more similar to stocks or to gold.

Attorneys for cryptocurrency-trading platform Coinbase Global Inc. filed a motion this month to dismiss a class-action lawsuit arguing that 79 of the tokens listed on the firm’s platform are unregistered securities.