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Two crypto-friendly women are being considered to pb the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), according to a study from Fox Business.
President-elect Donald Trump, according to Fox, is considering appointing either Perianne Boring oregon Caroline Pham – who some person pro-crypto credentials – to pb the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which nether a Trump administration, could beryllium the go-to integer assets regulator.
Recently, Boring has been a staunch defender of the bitcoin mining manufacture against what she calls "regulatory overreach." In a recent CoinDesk op-ed she took purpose astatine the Department of Energy's information postulation process, which she accuses of singling retired bitcoin miners nether the guise of “emergency” measures. She has besides accused the Securities and Exchange Commission of "backdoor rulemaking" by trying to get a fig of cryptocurrencies defined arsenic securities.
Boring did not respond to a petition for remark by CoinDesk sent by SMS.
Pham, 1 of Trump's different imaginable contenders for the position, is already successful the CFTC arsenic a Republican-appointed commissioner and person of the Commission's Global Markets Advisory Committee.
In 2023, Pham projected a "time-limited" aviator programme to modulate integer plus markets and tokenization, aimed astatine establishing a principles-based model to code innovation and hazard management.
She has called for much planetary regulatory practice and has suggested the SEC and CFTC prosecute successful roundtables to heighten regulatory clarity.
Another sanction being floated astir to pb the CFTC is Summer Mersinger, which Reuters reported successful mid-November.
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