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CFTC chair warns of conflict with SEC over Prometheum’s ETH play

SEC-registered broker Prometheum could force the agency to decide if Ether is a security and CFTC chair Rostin Behnam says that could lead to conflicting rules.

“Both Bitcoin and Ether are commodities,” Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman Rostin Behnam testified in a March 6 hearing before the House Committee on Agriculture.

Behnam was speaking about a decision last month by SEC special purpose broker-dealer (SPBD) licensed Prometheum to provide ETH custody services.

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