https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ave5j/coinbase-goes-nuclear-after-sec-threatens-to-sue-over-crypto-loans > Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange based in the US, has gone public with a regulatory fight over a plan to offer high-yield cryptocurrency loans that the Securities and Exchange Commission threatened to sue over if the exchange launched the product.  > The cryptocurrency loans industry is booming, with billions of dollars of value locked up in the crypto-equivalent of savings accounts that offer much higher yield than you might find at any bank, and in recent months regulators have started circling.