The Commodity Futures Trading Commission would need more resources as its regulatory purview expands with the addition of cryptocurrencies, experts say, and one bill that’s moving in the Senate would increase the agency’s budget.
The CFTC would take on the lion’s share of oversight of the cryptocurrency markets under a Senate Agriculture Committee bill the panel advanced along party lines last month. The House passed its own version of crypto market structure legislation in July 2025 that would give the CFTC a similarly big role.
The Senate Agriculture legislation includes a provision that would authorize $150 million to bolster the CFTC budget. The bill also would allow the agency to collect annual and volume-based fees from the digital commodity brokers, dealers, exchanges and digital asset custodians who would have to register with it.
