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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has officially appointed executives from Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Ripple, Chainlink, and other major crypto firms to a newly formed federal advisory committee.

The group's mandate is to help shape emerging policy around digital asset markets, derivatives oversight, and financial innovation. What's significant here isn't that crypto companies are engaging with regulators—that's been happening for years through lobbying and public comment periods. What's different is formalization.

These executives now hold advisory positions on a federal committee, which means they have structured input into policy development before rules are finalized. That's not the same as writing the rules, but it's closer than most industries ever get. The composition matters too.

You've got exchanges like Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini—companies that directly interface with retail users and institutional clients. Then you have Ripple, which has been in a multi-year legal battle with the SEC, and Chainlink, which represents oracle infrastructure that sits between blockchains and real-world data.

That's a wide range of perspectives, and it suggests the CFTC is trying to account for different layers of the stack when drafting policy. Whether this results in better regulation or just regulatory capture is the open question, but either way, the dynamic has shifted.

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Regulatorische Verschiebung: Europas Krypto-Risikoüberprüfung & politische Debatte

In Italien haben die Behörden eine "gründliche" Überprüfung der Risiken von Kryptowährungsinvestitionen eingeleitet, was auf ein wachsendes Interesse an dem Schutz von Privatanlegern und der systemischen Stabilität hinweist. Reuters
Unterdessen hat das Parlament in Polen das Präsidialveto gegen ein Gesetz aufrechterhalten, das die Krypto-Regulierung an MiCA — dem Rahmenwerk für Krypto-Assets der Europäischen Union — angeglichen hätte. Das Veto verhindert eine strengere Aufsicht und strafrechtliche Sanktionen bei Missbrauch und unterstreicht die anhaltenden politischen Spaltungen darüber, wie streng Krypto reguliert werden sollte. Reuters.
Diese Entwicklungen verdeutlichen die sich vergrößernde regulatorische Kluft in ganz Europa — und die Unsicherheit, mit der institutionelle Investoren konfrontiert sind, wenn sie grenzüberschreitende Krypto-Engagements in Betracht ziehen.

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