Gensler Pounces on FTX Debacle to Push His Crypto Agenda

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SEC Chair Gary Gensler, in a late afternoon speech, ratcheted up his rhetoric on cryptocurrency regulation – using the news of near collapse of trading platform FTX to forcefully argue for his agency to take a big role in oversight.

In particular, Gensler publicly panned (for the first time) the bipartisan Senate Agriculture bill on digital asset commodi…