First Mover Americas: Ether Leads Crypto Markets Higher After Final Merge Test Goes Live

If Levitin is right, and, more importantly, if the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shares his view, exchanges that list ether (and that would be nearly all of them) would be subject to more onerous regulatory requirements. Like the bitcoin cryptocurrency, ether has until now been treated as a commodity, outside the SEC’s jurisdiction.