{"id":62904,"date":"2025-12-10T19:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=62904"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:16:31","slug":"cftc-acting-chair-caroline-pham-clears-bitcoin-ethereum-usdc-for-use-as-collateral-in-derivatives-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=62904","title":{"rendered":"CFTC Acting Chair Caroline Pham Clears Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC For Use As Collateral In Derivatives Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The CFTC has launched a limited pilot program that allows <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>), <strong>Ethereum<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ETH\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ETH-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>), and <strong>USDC<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"USDC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/USDC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">USDC<\/a>) to be used as in-kind collateral for derivatives contracts denominated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/25\/12\/49296731\/big-short-investor-michael-burry-says-hes-learning-about-tokenization-and-how-it-is-rewiring-wall-street\">the same assets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong> Speaking on CNBC&#8217;s Squawk Box on Wednesday, acting chair <strong>Caroline Pham<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xY6IOkY6DAc\">explained<\/a> that the pilot includes strict safeguards.<\/p>\n<p>Only CFTC-registered intermediaries can &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49315180\/cftc-acting-chair-caroline-pham-clears-bitcoin-ethereum-usdc-for-use-as-collateral-in-deriv?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"CFTC\" acting chair caroline pham clears bitcoin ethereum usdc for use as collateral in derivatives pilot>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CFTC has launched a limited pilot program that allows Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), and USDC (CRYPTO: USDC) to be used as in-kind collateral for derivatives contracts denominated in the same assets. What Happened: Speaking on CNBC&#8217;s Squawk Box on Wednesday, acting chair Caroline Pham explained that the pilot includes strict safeguards. Only [&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-62904","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\/62904","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=62904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}