Coinbase received a message from Katherine Polk Failla, a judge in the Southern District of New York, who believes that Coinbase's request for years of communications from the SEC chairman, including messages before he became the head of the agency, is too harsh. Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal said its motion on Tuesday was in response to the judge's opinion at a hearing earlier this month, but it still requested the chairman's communications about cryptocurrencies, discussions within SEC divisions and what agency officials may have discussed before approving Coinbase as a public company. The SEC's enforcement action against Coinbase accuses the company of offering unregistered securities and operating an unregistered exchange; Coinbase denies that the tokens it trades are securities and that its exchange is not subject to SEC rules, but it also believes that the regulator has done a messy job in setting industry standards, and Coinbase has also sued the SEC on this point. (CoinDesk)