CFTC Chairman Selig Establishes Innovation Committee to Strengthen Digital Asset and Prediction Market Regulation

DeepFlowTech · 2026-01-13T00:30:34+00:00

The new Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Michael Selig, announced that the Technology Advisory Committee will be renamed the Innovation Advisory Committee. He plans to appoint industry leaders as members to focus on leveraging new technologies to modernize the financial system and develop market structure regulations.

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2026-01-13 00:30:34

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Deep Tide TechFlow News, January 13th, according to The Block, the newly appointed Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Michael Selig, announced on January 12th that the Technology Advisory Committee has been renamed the Innovation Advisory Committee, and plans to appoint CEO Innovation Committee members as charter members of the committee. The committee will include industry leaders such as Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour, and Gemini CEO Tyler Winklevoss.

Selig stated: “Innovators are leveraging technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cloud computing to modernize traditional financial systems and build entirely new systems. Under my leadership, the committee will develop market structure regulations suitable for the new financial frontier.”

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