Crypto Gains Ally As Former CFTC Chair Becomes Full-Time Adviser
Caroline Pham did it in December. Now Chris Giancarlo is following suit. The man once nicknamed “Crypto Dad” has walked away from law entirely to work full-time with cryptocurrency and financial technology companies, the latest in a string of senior regulators crossing into the industry they once helped oversee. Related Reading: Crypto Security Faces New […]
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Buried inside a new Bitcoin security proposal is a provision that could save stragglers from losing everything. Related Reading: Crypto Gains Ally As Former CFTC Chair Becomes Full-Time Adviser Anyone who misses the upgrade deadline but still holds their seed phrase would have a path to recovery through zero-knowledge proof technology — a last-resort mechanism […]
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....
In a recent interview at Coinbase’s State of Crypto Summit, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Acting Chair shared the future of the agency’s crypto regulation under the pro-industry administration. Related Reading: A ‘Threat To Privacy’? US Senators Question Meta’s Stablecoin Plan In New Letter CFTC Won’t Criminalize Crypto On Thursday, CFTC’s acting chair, Caroline Pham, […]