The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has named several cryptocurrency executives to a new Innovation Advisory Committee, which will weigh in on how the commodities watchdog should oversee the role of “breakthrough” technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies in markets.
“Today marks an important and energizing moment at the CFTC as the Innovation Advisory Committee takes shape,” CFTC Chair Michael S. Selig said. “The IAC’s work will help ensure the CFTC’s decisions reflect market realities so the agency can future-proof its markets and develop clear rules of the road for the Golden Age of American Financial Markets.”
The move comes as the CFTC under Selig continues to signal his administration will create a more permissive regulatory regime for the digital asset industry and foster other financial innovations, like prediction markets. Together with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the CFTC has launched “Project Crypto,” an effort looking to modernize crypto regulation.
Of the committee’s 35 advisors, few lack direct ties to the cryptocurrency industry.
The committee includes representatives for several blockchains, including Etherealize’s Vivek Raman, Solana Labs’ Anatoly Yakovenko, and Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse, and major blockchain projects like Sergey Nazarov, CEO of Chainlink Labs, and Hayden Adams, CEO of Uniswap Labs.
Executives from centralized cryptoexchange Bullish, Coinbase, Crypto.com, Gemini, and Kraken are included alongside other trading platforms like Bitnomial and Robinhood. The founders of the two leading prediction markets, Shayne Coplan of Polymarket and Tarek Mansour of Kalshi, were also named.
Crypto VCs like a16z crypto’s Chris Dixon, Framework Ventures’ Vance Spencer, and Paradigm’s Alana Palmedo were listed as well, along with executives from TradFi giants like Cboe, CME, DTCC, Nasdaq, and the Options Clearing Corporation, among other firms.
“By bringing together participants from every corner of the marketplace, the IAC will be a major asset for the Commission as we work to modernize our rules and regulations for the innovations of today and tomorrow,” Selig said.
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