Chris Giancarlo, the former chairperson of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has pushed for the legalization of bitcoin futures and has been hailed by the industry as the "father of crypto." Giancarlo has repeatedly stated publicly that the CFTC is ideal for regulating crypto markets, especially in the context of bitcoin and ethereum being treated as commodities. The Trump administration's plan is in line with Giancarlo's claims, providing policy support for the CFTC to play a ...
According to Fox News, former CFTC Chairperson Chris Giancarlo is expected to assume the chairpersonship of the SEC. It is reported that Chris Giancarlo is a former chairperson of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and one of the founders of Digital Dollar. He has in-depth insights into the development of Web3 and digital currencies. He has participated in several discussions on cryptocurrencies, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and stablecoins, and has emphasized the impo...
Former US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairperson Chris Giancarlo clarified in a post on the X platform that he is not running for the next Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) chairperson. He said that when he became the chairperson of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, he had cleaned up a lot of the "mess" of the current Securities Exchange Commission chairperson Gary Gensler, and now he does not want to do it again.
Summer Mersinger, the CFTC commissioner, and Chris Giancarlo, the former CFTC chairperson, referred to the SEC's regulatory style at the BlockTower investor conference. "We are not necessarily the kind of institution that will come out and say we know better than all of you and tell you how things work," Mersinger said. "We recognise that markets work best when regulators don't intervene."