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Is there a statute of limitations or a similar concept? For example, hypothetically would it be possible 30 years after the Ethereum ICO for the SEC to declare that ETH has been a security the entire time? As of now, it's been almost 10 years since the Ethereum ICO.

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5 years unless there is evidence of active fraud.

but that doesn't mean that if something exists for more than five years it can't be a fraud. It means they would have to find an action by Coinbase that was illegal and was done within the last five years. If it was illegal for coinbase to be a broker continually up until the present day then that would be within the statute of limitations

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