On December 13th, Binance submitted documents to the federal court in the District of Columbia, stating that the settlement agreement reached between Binance and the US DOJ and FinCEN is not substantively related to the SEC's charges against Binance, and that the SEC's supplemental briefing did not provide new and effective evidence in this case.

Previously, on December 9th, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) submitted a supplemental briefing to the court stating that despite the settlement reached by the Department of Justice, the Binance case should still proceed.