{"id":4115,"date":"2024-12-12T12:32:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T12:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2024-12-12T12:32:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T12:32:16","slug":"donald-trump-reportedly-tapping-brian-quintenz-as-head-of-commodity-futures-trading-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4115","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Reportedly Tapping Brian Quintenz As Head Of Commodity Futures Trading Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Brian Quintenz<\/strong>, a prominent figure in digital assets and former Republican commissioner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/government\/regulations\/24\/11\/42206456\/trump-administration-to-reportedly-let-cftc-regulate-bitcoin-ethereum-spot-market-is-the-sec-set-to-lose-its-grip-over-crypto\">Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)<\/a>, is reportedly a frontrunner to lead the agency under President-elect <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>Quintenz, who currently heads policy for <strong>a16z Crypto<\/strong>, the digital asset division of <strong>Andreessen Horowitz<\/strong>, has been interviewed for the role, Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-12-12\/andreessen-crypto-policy-lead-quintenz-in-running-for-cftc-chair?utm_source=telegram&amp;utm_content=crypto&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;embedded-checkout=true\">reported<\/a>, quoting sources.<\/p>\n<p>Both Quintenz and a spokesperson for a16z declined to comment, while the Trump transition team has yet to issue a statement.<\/p>\n<p>If appointed, Quintenz would bring a unique perspective to the CFTC, blending his experience in traditional finance and digital assets. <\/p>\n<p>Prior to his tenure at the CFTC, he led <strong>Saeculum Capital Management<\/strong>, a hedge fund, and served on Capitol &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/12\/42457774\/donald-trump-reportedly-tapping-brian-quintenz-as-head-of-commodity-futures-trading-commis\" alt=\"Donald\" trump reportedly tapping brian quintenz as head of commodity futures trading commission>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Quintenz, a prominent figure in digital assets and former Republican commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), is reportedly a frontrunner to lead the agency under President-elect Donald Trump. What Happened: Quintenz, who currently heads policy for a16z Crypto, the digital asset division of Andreessen Horowitz, has been interviewed for the role, Bloomberg [&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-4115","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\/4115","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=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}