The grievance adds that the SEC’s encroaching authority over Ethereum goes against its own past statements that the cryptocurrency is a commodity, not a fastness (citing former director Bill Hinman’s 2018 speech), as well as the SEC’s sister regulatory agency, the Commodities Tomorrows Trading Commission (CFTC), own authority over Ethereum, which oversees derivative products tied to ether.
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