{"id":87553,"date":"2020-10-12T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cftc-chairman-admits-regulation-must-keep-up-with-innovation\/"},"modified":"2020-10-12T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:30:00","slug":"cftc-chairman-admits-regulation-must-keep-up-with-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cftc-chairman-admits-regulation-must-keep-up-with-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"# CFTC chairman admits regulation must keep up with innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># CFTC chairman admits regulation must keep up with innovation <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5ldS1jZW50cmFsLTEuYW1hem9uYXdzLmNvbS9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjAtMTAvMGMyNWQ4NDYtZmUyZi00ZTA1LTg4YWQtMjExZGI0ZjgwYWNkLmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-v-17f60ba6=\"\">Speaking at the digital LA Blockchain Summit, Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman,\u00a0Heath Tarbert, said U.S. regulation lags behind crypto and blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would be the first to agree with you that innovation is unlikely to come from the government,&#8221; Tarbert <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hd2E1nqXgGk\">told<\/a> interviewer Anthony Pompliano\u00a0on Oct. 7 as part of an event segment on the role of digital securities in the derivatives market. Tarbert explained that the private sector often leads innovation, with regulators&#8217; carrying the job of overseeing such advances. He added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I see my role as a regulator as not so much innovating ourselves, but we want to be innovative for a regulator, but not necessarily innovate for the community, but we&#8217;ve gotta keep up.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since the birth of the crypto and blockchain industry roughly 11 years ago, U.S. regulation in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> has failed in keeping pace with the quickly developing sector, often using a heavy handed <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach. Initial coin offerings serve as one example, bursting onto the scene throughout 2017. In response, regulating bodies came in heavy against this new method of fundraising. As a result, token sales are now all but extinct. <\/p>\n<p>Ripple&#8217;s XRP, which has been\u00a0one of the top crypto assets since 2013 according to rankings from a CoinMarketCap historical <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/historical\/20130825\/\">snapshot<\/a>,\u00a0serves as another example. XRP\u00a0saw a lawsuit earlier in 2020 claiming the asset as a security \u2014 a ruling that should have been clarified years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many regulatory growing pains seen in the crypto space relate to the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, although regulation as a whole has some catching up to do.<\/p>\n<p>Tarbert <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/About\/Commissioners\/HeathTarbert\/index.htm#:~:text=Tarbert%20is%20Chairman%20and%20Chief,derivatives%20markets%20through%20sound%20regulation.\">assumed<\/a> his role as CFTC chairman in July 2019, joining the scene amid significant technological advancement following closure on the 2008 market downturn. &#8220;It was a good opportunity for us to revisit our mission,&#8221; Tarbert explained. The commission crafted an updated mission statement. The CFTC desires &#8220;to promote the integrity, resilience, and vibrancy of U.S. derivatives markets through sound regulation,&#8221; Tarbert said, quoting the mission statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Of those, vibrancy is the one that gets at the innovation, gets at the innovation point that we don&#8217;t want our markets to be stale, we want them to be continuing to develop and be innovative.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The current landscape, however, appears contrary to this stated desire for innovation. U.S. traders still have a difficult time as many crypto exchanges ban U.S. participants, fearing the country&#8217;s stiff regulatory scene. Crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX is one of the most recent examples of these related consequences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/cftc-chairman-admits-regulation-must-keep-up-with-innovation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;# CFTC chairman admits regulation must keep up with innovation &#8221; Speaking at the digital LA Blockchain Summit, Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman,\u00a0Heath Tarbert, said U.S. regulation lags behind crypto and blockchain. &#8220;I would be the first to agree with you that innovation is unlikely to come from the government,&#8221; Tarbert told interviewer Anthony Pompliano\u00a0on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2020-10\/0c25d846-fe2f-4e05-88ad-211db4f80acd.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74858,75422,55229,70934],"class_list":["post-87553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin-regulation","tag-cftc","tag-law","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87553","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=87553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}