US President Donald Trump is planning to appoint Michael Selig as the following chair of the Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee (CFTC), after pulling again the nomination of Brian Quintenz.
Bloomberg reported the information on Friday, citing an unnamed Trump administration official. No official announcement has been made on the time of this writing.
Selig presently serves because the Securities and Trade Fee’s crypto activity power chief counsel and senior adviser to SEC Chair Paul Atkins. He has been characterized as “pro-crypto” by some analysts and influencers within the crypto neighborhood, who celebrated the potential nomination.
The CFTC nomination race stalled in September after former CFTC nominee Brian Quintenz confronted stress from the Gemini crypto alternate’s co-founders, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss.
Trump finally withdrew the nomination. Quintenz beforehand informed Cointelegraph that he would return to the non-public sector.
Trump has mulled handing the CFTC oversight over crypto since 2024, and the regulatory company will share oversight with the SEC beneath Trump’s Working Group on Digital Assets policy recommendations, which the group outlined in a July report.
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The Working Group beneficial that the CFTC ought to have oversight over the spot crypto markets and categorised most cryptocurrencies as commodities.
All different crypto belongings categorised as securities, like tokenized bonds and shares, will stay beneath the purview of the SEC.
The CFTC and SEC issued a joint statement in September about “harmonizing” regulatory efforts between the 2 businesses, which attorneys have touted as bringing much-needed clarity to the crypto trade within the US.
CFTC officers additionally announced a “crypto sprint” in August to implement coverage suggestions from the White Home’s Working Group on Digital Belongings.
Joint efforts between the CFTC and SEC have additionally sparked rumors that the 2 businesses will merge to turn out to be a single regulatory entity, prompting Atkins to deny the rumors.
Atkins stated that solely the US president or Congress has the facility to merge the businesses right into a single physique.
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