This person isn't necessarily an oligarch, but they are a major vendor of market research and VC dollars in the space. This is how important they think the stakes are around fake internet money [1]:

> The Biden Administration is trying to strangle crypto.

> A lot of folks have been trying to stifle that criticism, but the effort to destroy the industry is quiet but pervasive across the exec branch.

> The time to make crypto an issue that wins or loses the Presidency is now.

Investors in my company support that view. It's an example of doing things indistinguishable from what oligarchs want: no questions on their authority, even in the wake of massive consumer harms relating to token speculation and fundamentally unsolvable UX issues for retail consumers.

[1] https://twitter.com/twobitidiot/status/1624563275760279554