U.S. CFTC Chief Behnam Reinforces View of Ether as Commodity

In the high-stakes CFTC action against Binance, his agency claimed that several tokens – bitcoin, ether, litecoin and the stablecoins tether and BUSD – are commodities that Binance was illegally trading. A lawmaker in the House Appropriations Committee asked him in a budget hearing Tuesday whether he personally believed ether should be on that list.