Regulating Crypto and Digital Assets

A plan B to move forward at the agency level was always

in the cards, right? Because you have to have a contingency

plan,

and there's just so many different things with politics and everything going on.

So not only did the agencies include that, um, when, with work that we did

last year with the, uh, you know, White House crypto roadmap, but then of

course the SEC's Project Crypto, my crypto sprint that I launched

when I was at

the CFTC.

Caroline Pham says she helped set the CFTC up to regulate crypto in the

absence of clarity during her time as acting chair from January to

December of 2025.

The digital asset markets pilot program that I did, that created

data that can now be used by the CFTC to do rulemakings.

Because of course, in order to do good rules, um,

you have to show your homework.

And so that's what we did all last year, and it's a fantastic platform.

Plus we started the harmonization efforts.

I did the CFTC SEC harmonization roundtable back in September of

last year