{"id":393591,"date":"2022-01-13T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/former-cftc-chair-giancarlo-joins-coinfund-as-an-adviser\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T17:00:00","slug":"former-cftc-chair-giancarlo-joins-coinfund-as-an-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/former-cftc-chair-giancarlo-joins-coinfund-as-an-adviser\/","title":{"rendered":"# Former CFTC chair Giancarlo joins CoinFund as an adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"

“# Former CFTC chair Giancarlo joins CoinFund as an adviser <\/strong>”
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Blockchain investment firm CoinFund has app<\/a>ointed former United States commodities regulator J. Christopher Giancarlo as a strategic adviser \u2014 a move that should help the Brooklyn-based company navigate the complex, ever-changing regulatory requirements in its home country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Often referred to as \u201cCrypto Dad\u201d by the blockchain community for his support of digital assets, Giancarlo was nominated as commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in 2014. In January 2017, he became the agency\u2019s acting chair before assuming the role full-time in August of the same year. He held the position until July 2019. <\/p>\n

CoinFund president Christopher Perkins described Giancarlo as a \u201cdriving force\u201d of innovation at the CFTC, especially for advocating \u201cthoughtful crypto policy in the United States.\u201d Jake Bruckman, CoinFund\u2019s founder, said the former government official will provide expertise at a time when domestic crypto regulations are changing in real time. <\/p>\n

Since leaving the CFTC, Giancarlo has become a more vocal supporter of digital assets and has even served on the board of directors at crypto lending firm BlockFi. In June 2021, Giancarlo told Cointelegraph that the United States risks becoming a \u201cbackwater\u201d without a central bank digital currency and that China was clearly the leader in CBDC development. As early as January 2020, Giancarlo was on record saying that the United States needs a digital dollar to compete with China\u2019s CBDC project. <\/p>\n