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Pat Toomey blames the SEC for crypto lending platform crisis

2022.07.29 20:46

Pat Toomey blames the SEC for crypto lending platform crisis
Pat Toomey blames the SEC for crypto lending platform crisis

According to Senator Pat Tomey, famous for his vocal support for the crypto industry, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could have prevented the loss of $12 billion in assets by investors who trusted Celsius, a crypto lending platform, that froze their deposits in June.

An official letter from Toomey to SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, dated by July 26, suggested that the Commission’s inability to clarify how it would apply existing securities laws to digital assets and services, drew to undesirable repercussions. As Toomey writes:

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