Binance’s Multi-Billion CFTC Penalty Was ‘Heightened,’ Says Commissioner Kristin Johnson

“There is a widespread assumption that enforcement actions within the crypto or digital property ecosystem connote dangerous actors or dangerous conduct. Admittedly, there may be loads of proof to help this assumption,” Johnson mentioned, however added that, in Binance’s case, “the matter and the decision of the litigation didn’t contain any allegation of fraud or related misconduct.”