Former CFTC chair Giancarlo joins CoinFund as an adviser
Giancarlo has been a vocal supporter of cryptocurrencies and CBDCs and has called for a “do no harm approach” to blockchain regulation. Blockchain investment firm CoinFund has appointed former United States commodities regulator J. Christopher Giancarlo as a strategic adviser — a move that should help the Brooklyn-based company navigate the complex, ever-changing regulatory requirements in its home country. Often referred to as “Crypto Dad” by the blockchain community for his support of digital assets, Giancarlo was nominated as commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission....
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Many in the crypto and blockchain space referred to Giancarlo as “Crypto Dad” for his role in supporting digital assets during his five years at the CFTC. Chris Giancarlo, who served as chair for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission until 2019, will be joining the board of directors for blockchain startup Digital Asset.In a Tuesday announcement, Digital Asset said Giancarlo would be providing counsel on asset tokenization, distributed ledger technology, and the possible impact of regulatory developments on the crypto space. The former CFTC chair is currently working as senior....
The first of his name, king of the punks and the first regulators, protector of the seven tokens, the keeper of the great CBDC, the breaker of blockchains and father of crypto. The French government has given former United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair Chris Giancarlo, also known as "Crypto Dad," the equivalent of a knighthood.In a Tuesday tweet from Giancarlo, the former CFTC head said France’s National Order of Merit awarded him a Chevalier — the equivalent of a knighthood — in a ceremony at the French ambassador's residence in Washington D.C. Those attending included....
"Crypto Dad" made his case for the next evolution of America's greenback.
Commissioner J Christopher Giancarlo of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said today that he believes the government agency should reexamine existing rules as necessary to foster innovation with blockchain technologies. Giancarlo’s remarks on the possibility of revisiting CFTC regulations in light of new blockchain applications came as part of a keynote address at the DTCC Blockchain Symposium today, in which he discussed his view on the implications of blockchain and distributed ledgers for regulators. Evoking comparisons to the Internet, Giancarlo went so far as to suggest....
Former CFTC head Giancarlo said a “central bank mindset” is holding crypto back, and Wetjen saw the need for more entrepreneurialism in regulatory agencies. Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Chris Giancarlo, known by some as Crypto Dad during his tenure from 2017 to 2019, spoke on the topic of U.S. crypto regulation at the Crypto Bahamas conference on Thursday. He called the current U.S. regulations, many of which were written in the 1930s, “nonapplicable” to the current financial reality of cryptocurrencies.Giancarlo expressed concern that central banks were....