Cryptocurrencies should not be viewed as their own asset class and should be evaluated individually, an SEC director says

Valerie Szczepanik, director of the SEC's Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology, is seated at right during the Chainalysis conference.
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Cryptocurrencies should not be viewed as their own asset class, said the director of the SEC's Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial TechnologyInstead, they should be evaluated individually, Valerie Szczepanik said at the Chainalysis conference in New York Thursday.
"I think digital asset is a representation of value, an