Staking platform Lidoโs share of staked ether (ETH) has continued to fall, which should reduce concerns about concentration in the Ethereum network, raising the chance that ETH won’t be designated as a security in the future, JPMorgan (JPM) said in a research report on Wednesday.
โThe share of Lido in staked ETH has decreased further from around one third a year ago to around a quarter at the moment,โ analysts led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou wrote.
The Hinman documents, which were released last June, โrevealed the role of network decentralization in the SECโs thinking on whether a digital token should be classified as a security or not,โ the analysts wrote.
JPMorgan notes that officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had acknowledged in the past that โtokens on a sufficiently decentralized network are no longer securities as there is no controlling group in the Howey sense.โ
The Howey Test relates to the U.S. Supreme Court case to determine whether a transaction qualifies as an investment contract. If a transaction is considered to be an investment contract, itโs classified as a security.
The recent Dencun upgrade should โhelp Ethereum to increase its dominance against alternative layer 1 blockchains and to recapture the lost market share due to previous scalability issues,โ the report added.
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