CFTC Innovation Council adds prediction market, exchange CEOs

cointelegraphPublicado a 2025-12-11Actualizado a 2025-12-11

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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has formed a new CEO Innovation Council, bringing together executives from both the blockchain industry and traditional finance. The council will focus on market structure developments in derivatives markets, with discussions covering tokenization, crypto assets, 24/7 trading, perpetual contracts, prediction markets, and blockchain infrastructure. Participants include CEOs from crypto exchanges and prediction markets such as Polymarket, Kraken, and Gemini, as well as leaders from traditional exchanges like CME Group and Nasdaq. This initiative follows recent CFTC efforts, including a pilot program allowing the use of Bitcoin, Ether, and USDC as margin collateral. Acting Chairman Caroline Pham emphasized the agency’s commitment to engaging with the crypto market and establishing clear regulatory guidelines.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has added a host of blockchain industry executives alongside counterparts from traditional finance as part of the agency’s new CEO Innovation Council.

According to an announcement on Wednesday, the CEO Innovation Council will discuss market structure developments relating to the derivatives markets overseen by the CFTC.

The discussion topics will primarily be about “tokenization, crypto assets, 24/7 trading, perpetual contracts, prediction markets and blockchain market infrastructure.”

The list of participants includes the bosses of crypto exchanges and prediction markets such as Polymarket, Kalshi, Kraken, Gemini, Bitnomial, Crypto.com and Bullish.

Alongside the crypto CEOs, the counterparts from traditional finance come from major exchanges such as CME Group, Cboe Global Markets, Nasdaq, Intercontinental Exchange and the London Stock Exchange Group.

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“We are building on the success of the CFTC Crypto CEO Forum and the SEC-CFTC Joint Roundtable with our CFTC CEO Innovation Council, specifically focused on market structure developments in derivatives markets,” said acting CFTC Chairman Caroline Pham.

CFTC working to improve derivative market infrastructure and regulation

The latest move by the CFTC comes just a few days after acting chairman Pham announced a crypto collateral derivatives market pilot program.

The pilot will enable CFTC-registered futures commission merchants to accept Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and Circle’s stablecoin USDC for margin collateral, as the CFTC tests out the integration of crypto in regulated markets.

Pham’s leadership has so far indicated that the CFTC is open to actively engaging with the crypto market and establishing clear guidelines for the sector, something that has previously been seen as more challenging for the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Earlier this year, the CFTC also unveiled the Crypto CEO Forum, consisting of CEOs from major firms such as Coinbase, Circle and Ripple, with Pham vowing to “deliver on the Trump Administration’s promise of ensuring that America leads the way on economic opportunity.”

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