{"id":103710,"date":"2026-06-15T18:18:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=103710"},"modified":"2026-06-15T18:18:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:18:05","slug":"own-no-bitcoin-no-problem-btc-perps-are-just-getting-started-cftc-chair-selig-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=103710","title":{"rendered":"Own No Bitcoin? No Problem, BTC Perps Are Just Getting Started, CFTC Chair Selig Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>CFTC Chairman <strong>Mike Selig<\/strong> says cryptocurrency perpetual futures are beginning to move onshore in the U.S., marking what he calls a &#8220;watershed moment&#8221; for regulated digital asset markets.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201c<strong>This Is Just The Beginning, Not End<\/strong>\u201c<\/h2>\n<p>In an interview with Bankless on June 15, Selig <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WqSe0uSm7Jg\">remarked<\/a> the CFTC\u2019s recent approval of a <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) perpetual futures contract on a registered U.S. exchange represents a major shift away from years of offshore crypto derivatives activity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want the industry to survive, to thrive and to build here in the U.S,&#8221; he vouched.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came after the CFTC approved a Bitcoin perpetual futures contract <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/06\/52994248\/why-own-bitcoin-at-all-kalshi-ceo-says-perpetual-futures-are-the-purest-form-of-trading\">listed by KalshiX <\/a>and issued a no-action letter allowing <strong>Coinbase<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"COIN\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\">COIN<\/a>) customers to access &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/06\/53206697\/own-no-bitcoin-no-problem-btc-perps-are-just-getting-started-cftc-chair-selig-says?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Own\" no bitcoin problem btc perps are just getting started cftc chair selig says>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CFTC Chairman Mike Selig says cryptocurrency perpetual futures are beginning to move onshore in the U.S., marking what he calls a &#8220;watershed moment&#8221; for regulated digital asset markets. \u201cThis Is Just The Beginning, Not End\u201c In an interview with Bankless on June 15, Selig remarked the CFTC\u2019s recent approval of a Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) perpetual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-103710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}