| By Ali Breland Senators in the coming week will hear from two top regulators about how to handle the booming market in digital coins. The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee will hear Tuesday from Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton and Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Christopher Giancarlo. The two agencies are the primary regulators of cryptocurrencies in the U.S. The hearing comes as bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies capture the public's attention. The currencies rocketed in value before taking a heavy dip in recent months. That volatility has attracted the scrutiny of regulators in the U.S. and other countries. The CFTC already regulated cryptocurrencies as commodities for several years, but the SEC is also taking notice in these products as securities. SEC Chairman Clayton in December issued guidance cautioning investors on digital currencies, in particular initial coin offerings (ICOs). Companies are raising money through ICOs, selling shares in their own cryptocurrencies to raise capital the way other corporations might sell shares. The SEC has also started to crack down on cryptocurrency scams and unregistered securities that it believes are masquerading as initial coin offerings. Lawmakers will have questions about what steps the agencies may take next. Clayton and Giancarlo have given some clues about their thoughts. In a joint op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, they said a "key issue" for them is determining whether the "historical approach to the regulation of currency transactions is appropriate for the cryptocurrency markets." "Distributed ledger technology may, in fact, be the next great disruptive and productivity-enhancing economic development," they wrote. "But we will not allow it or any other advancement to disrupt our commitment to fair and sound markets." Clayton has indicated that he may like to beef up regulation of initial coin offerings. "I have yet to see an ICO that doesn't have a sufficient number of hallmarks of a security," he said during a speech at the Institute on Securities Regulation in New York City in November. Digital currencies won't be the only big tech issue on lawmakers' minds in the coming week. On Tuesday, the Senate Commerce Committee will examine the 2016 Uber data breach in which the information of 57 million accounts was compromised. Uber Chief Information Security Officer John Flynn is set to testify at the hearing. Uber has been under fire after it emerged that the company paid the hackers $100,000 to delete the stolen data. According to some reports, the company allegedly asked the hackers to also sign non-disclosure agreements about the breach. Lawmakers quickly pressed the company for answers. States and other countries have also launched their own probes into the hack. Net neutrality will also be in the spotlight in the coming week. On Friday, the Senate received official notice from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of its plan to scrap the Obama-era internet rules. Once the House also receives formal notice and the proposal is published by the Federal Register, Congress will have 60 days to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to block the repeal. Democrats and Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) are one vote away from being able to pass a CRA resolution in the Senate to save the rules. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has already said that he will make sure a measure to save net neutrality receives a vote on the Senate floor. But the resolution faces a tougher path in the House where conservatives largely back FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's move to roll back the rules. Both the House and the Senate will be in session early in the coming week before Democrats leave for a retreat on Wednesday. Also on the tech agenda, at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the Senate Health Committee will hold a hearing on so-called gig economy workers, like Uber drivers, and retirement savings. At 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, the Senate Agriculture Committee will hold its own hearing on the CFTC and cryptocurrency regulation. At 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, the House Foreign Affairs will hold a hearing on U.S. cyber diplomacy. The hearing comes after lawmakers passed legislation to restore an office on cybersecurity at the State Department that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson planned to close. At 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, the House Committee on Homeland Security will hold a hearing on ensuring the effectiveness of emergency alert systems after authorities in Hawaii mistakenly sent a fake missile alert to residents. 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