{"id":21988,"date":"2026-02-13T08:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/coinbase-ripple-solana-execs-join-cftcs-innovation-advisory-committee\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T08:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:27:37","slug":"coinbase-ripple-solana-execs-join-cftcs-innovation-advisory-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/coinbase-ripple-solana-execs-join-cftcs-innovation-advisory-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase, Ripple, Solana execs join CFTC\u2019s Innovation Advisory Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">The Commodity and Futures Trading Commission expanded its Innovation Advisory Committee to a 35-member panel on Thursday with the addition of executives from leading crypto-facing entities like Coinbase and Ripple, among others.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_b7c2f2a3271b75d6a42f74f330caa05a\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The CFTC has finalized a 35-member Innovation Advisory Committee to help modernize regulatory oversight.<\/li>\n<li>Executives from Coinbase, Ripple, Uniswap, and other crypto firms make up the majority of the panel.<\/li>\n<li>Chairman Michael Selig said the group will support the agency\u2019s goal to \u201cfuture-proof\u201d U.S. financial markets.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>An updated list with 23 new appointments, layered over the original 12 charter members that were designated at launch in late 2025, was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/PressRoom\/PressReleases\/9182-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">published by the commission<\/a> on Feb. 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The committee was formed to help guide the derivatives regulator so it can \u201cfuture-proof its markets and develop clear rules of the road for the Golden Age of American Financial Markets,\u201d Chairman Michael S. Selig explained.<\/p>\n<p>The origins of the committee can be traced back to late 2025 under then\u2011Acting Chair Caroline Pham, who established the CEO Innovation Council to address the challenges of 24\/7 trading, tokenized collateral, and prediction markets, goals that will remain on the agenda of the expanded Innovation Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n<p>After Selig\u2019s appointment as the permanent CFTC Chairman, he restructured and rebranded the council as the Innovation Advisory Committee, to officially replace the long-standing Technology Advisory Committee, and nominated the 12 original participants, such as Tyler Winklevoss from Gemini and Shayne Coplan from Polymarket, as charter members.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crypto-native voices dominate<\/h1>\n<p>The majority of the 35-member committee now hails from digital asset firms. Notably, 20 members are directly involved with the crypto space.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the new additions to the list include Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek, a16z crypto Managing Partner Chris Dixon, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, and Blockchain.com CEO Peter Smith, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, executives at Grayscale, Anchorage Digital, Solana Labs, Paradigm, Kraken, Bullish, Chainlink Labs, Bitnomial, Etherealize, and Framework Ventures were also named to the committee.<\/p>\n<p>At least five members are tied to prediction markets, including Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and DraftKings CEO Jason Robins.<\/p>\n<p>Other members include executives at major financial institutions such as Nasdaq, CME Group, Cboe Global Markets, Intercontinental Exchange, and the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy bringing together participants from every corner of the marketplace, the IAC will be a major asset for the Commission as we work to modernize our rules and regulations for the innovations of today and tomorrow,\u201d Selig said.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commodity and Futures Trading Commission expanded its Innovation Advisory Committee to a 35-member panel on Thursday with the addition of executives from leading crypto-facing entities like Coinbase and Ripple,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21989,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21988\/revisions\/21989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}