{"id":708550,"date":"2026-01-20T22:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/us-cftc-chair-selig-appoints-crypto-lawyer-as-senior-adviser\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:30:17","slug":"us-cftc-chair-selig-appoints-crypto-lawyer-as-senior-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/us-cftc-chair-selig-appoints-crypto-lawyer-as-senior-adviser\/","title":{"rendered":"US CFTC chair Selig appoints crypto lawyer as senior adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Selig named two people as senior advisers, one of whom helped with a law firm\u2018s letter that led to an SEC no-action letter on crypto custodians.<\/p>\n

Michael Selig, chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), announced the app<\/a>ointment of a senior adviser with experience in litigating crypto and blockchain cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a Tuesday notice, Selig said<\/a> Michael Passalacqua, a former associate at international law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, would join the CFTC as a senior adviser. Selig cited Passalacqua\u2019s experience with \u201cfinancial regulatory matters involving crypto assets and blockchain technologies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEarlier in his career, [Passalacqua] served as assistant general<\/a> counsel at a crypto asset capital markets firm where he advised on a range of crypto asset regulatory and transactional matters,\u201d said Selig.<\/p>\n

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Michael Selig named two people as senior advisers, one of whom helped with a law firm\u2018s letter that led to an SEC no-action letter on crypto custodians. Michael Selig, chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), announced the appointment of a senior adviser with experience in litigating crypto and blockchain cases.\u00a0 In a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":708551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/f=auto,onerror=redirect,w=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2026-01\/019bdc0b-47ab-7f9e-891d-c8be9ec0dc99.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}