US CFTC Chairman outlines key priorities for the coming years, including clarifying crypto regulations and ending the jurisdictional dispute with the SEC

ChainCatcher News, Mike Selig, Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), disclosed in his speech at the FIA Global Clearing Market Conference that the United States is undergoing a new technological revolution driven by AI, blockchain, and prediction markets. The CFTC needs to ensure that its regulatory framework adapts to this transformation.

Selig outlined the key areas of focus for the coming years: achieving forward-looking derivatives market regulation through principles-based oversight with minimal effective intervention; resolving legacy issues from the Dodd-Frank Act; ending the turf war and enforcement-based regulation between the CFTC and SEC; ensuring the U.S. maintains its status as the global crypto capital through clear classification rules for products such as genuine crypto perpetual contracts; establishing a gold-standard regulatory system for prediction markets; making the U.S. a leading market for AI computing; refocusing the Commission on its core responsibilities and away from non-core areas such as climate policy; prioritizing the needs of the agriculture and energy communities; and bringing markets for key minerals and other sectors back to the U.S.