{"id":47244,"date":"2025-02-12T16:35:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T16:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/trump-is-planning-to-pick-former-cftc-commissioner-brian-quintenz-as-chair\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T16:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T16:35:26","slug":"trump-is-planning-to-pick-former-cftc-commissioner-brian-quintenz-as-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/trump-is-planning-to-pick-former-cftc-commissioner-brian-quintenz-as-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is planning to pick former CFTC commissioner Brian Quintenz as chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : CoinJournal: Latest Crypto News, Altcoin News and Cryptocurrency Comparison )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-site=\"CoinJournal\">\n<div class=\"-mt-16  mb-8  lg:-mt-20  rounded-md  shadow-md\">\n<div class=\"relative  z-10  post-article-image  rounded  overflow-hidden\" data-site=\"CoinJournal\">\n<picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/2023\/03\/shutterstock_781859251-1-1-smartcrop-750x375.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 750px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/2023\/03\/shutterstock_781859251-1-1-smartcrop-363x181.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/2023\/03\/shutterstock_781859251-1-1-smartcrop-750x375.jpg\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 750px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/2023\/03\/shutterstock_781859251-1-1-smartcrop-363x181.jpg\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/>\n<\/picture>                            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Quintenz served as a CFTC Commissioner between 2017 and 2021 as part of the Technology Advisory Committee<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">CFTC Commissioner Caroline Pham has been filling in as acting chair<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US President Donald Trump is reportedly considering Brian Quintenz \u2013 a former CFTC commissioner \u2013 to lead the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Quintenz, who served as a Republican commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission during Trump\u2019s first term in the White House, is currently the head of policy at Andreessen Horowitz\u2019s a16z crypto arm, according to a document reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-02-12\/trump-plans-to-pick-quintenz-as-head-of-us-derivatives-regulator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If Quintenz is confirmed to lead the agency, it\u2019s expected that he\u2019ll push for pro-crypto changes. These could help establish the CFTC as the preferred regulator over the Securities and Exchange Commission (<a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/news\/tag\/sec\/\">SEC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In January, Trump named CFTC Commissioner <a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/news\/trump-picks-caroline-pham-as-acting-cftc-chair\/\">Caroline Pham as acting chair<\/a>. Pham, who has championed a digital assets regulatory framework, promoted the digital assets \u201cregulatory sandbox\u201d in the US in 2023 setting the ground for the emergence of new technologies and a pilot program for digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Pham said: \u201cI congratulate my friend Brian Quintenz on his selection for CFTC Chairman. I worked with Brian on important initiatives that he led to success when he was a CFTC Commissioner. He will do the same for crypto and innovation. I look forward to supporting Brian and his leadership at the CFTC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In December, it was reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/news\/cftc-chair-rostin-behnam-to-leave-agency-calls-for-need-to-fill-crypto-regulatory-gap\/\">Quintenz was in the running to lead the agency<\/a> following the departure of Rostin Behnam, former chair of the CFTC.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-meta\">\n<hr class=\"mb-6\"\/>\n<h6 class=\"text-3xl  mb-4  text-green-300\">Share this article<\/h6>\n<hr class=\"mb-6\"\/>\n<h6 class=\"text-3xl  mb-4  text-green-300\">Categories<\/h6>\n<hr class=\"mb-6\"\/>\n<h6 class=\"text-3xl  mb-4  text-green-300\">Tags<\/h6>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/news\/trump-is-planning-to-pick-former-cftc-commissioner-brian-quintenz-as-chair\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : CoinJournal: Latest Crypto News, Altcoin News and Cryptocurrency Comparison ) Quintenz served as a CFTC Commissioner between 2017 and 2021 as part of the Technology Advisory Committee CFTC Commissioner Caroline Pham has been filling in as acting chair US President Donald Trump is reportedly considering Brian Quintenz \u2013 a former CFTC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3947362367,"featured_media":47245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3947362367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}