“When Chair Gensler on the SEC in 2021 mentioned, ‘Are available and register,’ we did,” mentioned Robinhood Markets’ chief compliance lawyer Dan Gallagher in his testimony. “We went by means of a 16-month course of with the SEC workers attempting to register a particular objective dealer seller. After which we have been fairly summarily informed in March that that course of was over and we might not see any fruits of that effort,” he added.