Behnam has been pursuing a much longer reach for his agency when it comes to crypto, asking Congress to give it power to oversee the spot market for digital commodity tokens. That’s a favored idea in more than one piece of legislation introduced this year, but the bills will likely have to wait for the next Congress after November’s midterm elections (and the bills themselves don’t always clearly define where the CFTC’s jurisdiction might begin and end).
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