DeFi is subject to regulation, CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam says
The CFTC chair argued that decentralized digital asset exchanges will be regulated regardless of how they’re constituted—it’s just a matter of whether the CFTC or the SEC does it.
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Ethereum is a security—CFTC is wrong
As per the legal opinion of both the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the New York Attorney General, Ethereum, and most other tokens sold via ICO, are unregistered securities.
Why Congress needs to act: CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam shares lessons learned from FTX collapse
Regulators in the United States believe regulating the digital currency market is key to preventing events such as the FTX collapse from recurring.
CFTC: The not-so friendly regulator
Digital asset regulation in the United States has a problem. There are too many chefs in the kitchen, and in confusion, some digital dishes are getting burned while others are being snuck out the back door.
CFTC commissioner visits Ripple offices as supremacy battle with SEC heats up
The visit by CFTC’s Caroline Pham, who criticized the SEC’s “regulation by enforcement” earlier this year, comes as both agencies fight for digital currency industry oversight.
Regulatory crypture: FTX pins ‘light touch’ hopes on CFTC
Controversial “crypto” exchange FTX hopes the CFTC will vanquish the SEC in the regulatory turf war over which branch of the U.S. government gets primary oversight of digital assets.