"This is not about how the litigation was going, this is about the Trump administration not wanting to go after crypto," a source told BI.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to drop its lawsuit against Coinbase, following what the crypto exchange said was a change in “political leadership” at the agency, which accused Coinbase of failing to register as a securities exchange under the Biden administration.

If approved, the deal would cap a nearly two-year-long legal battle between America’s largest crypto exchange and the SEC, which had been a marquee case in the federal government’s now-crumbling crackdown on crypto.