{"id":39,"date":"2025-12-12T17:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/?p=39"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:08:15","slug":"cftc-innovation-council-adds-prediction-market-and-exchange-ceos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"CFTC Innovation Council Adds Prediction Market and Exchange CEOs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has established a new <strong>CEO Innovation Council<\/strong>, incorporating a mix of blockchain industry executives and leaders from traditional finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Council Focus and Participants<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The CEO Innovation Council will focus on discussing market structure developments related to the <strong>derivatives markets<\/strong> overseen by the CFTC. The primary discussion topics will include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tokenization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Crypto assets<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>24\/7 trading<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Perpetual contracts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prediction markets<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blockchain market infrastructure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants include CEOs from various crypto exchanges and prediction markets such as <strong>Kraken, Gemini, Polymarket, Kalshi, Bitnomial, Crypto.com, and Bullish<\/strong>. They will be joined by counterparts from major traditional exchanges, including the <strong>CME Group, Cboe Global Markets, Nasdaq, Intercontinental Exchange, and the London Stock Exchange Group<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acting CFTC Chairman <strong>Caroline Pham<\/strong> stated that the new council builds upon the success of the previous CFTC Crypto CEO Forum and the SEC-CFTC Joint Roundtable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CFTC\u2019s Engagement with Crypto<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This latest initiative follows Pham&#8217;s recent announcement of a <strong>crypto collateral derivatives market pilot program<\/strong>. Under Pham&#8217;s leadership, the CFTC has signaled its openness to actively engaging with the crypto market and establishing clear guidelines for the sector, a task that has often been more challenging for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year, the CFTC also introduced the <strong>Crypto CEO Forum<\/strong>, which included CEOs from major firms like Coinbase, Circle, and Ripple. Pham previously pledged to &#8220;deliver on the Trump Administration\u2019s promise of ensuring that America leads the way on economic opportunity&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has established a new CEO Innovation Council, incorporating a mix of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eft","category-market"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}