{"id":64367,"date":"2025-12-19T09:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=64367"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:31:33","slug":"senate-confirms-trumps-crypto-friendly-nominees-mike-selig-and-travis-hil-to-lead-cftc-fdic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=64367","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Trump&#8217;s Crypto-Friendly Nominees Mike Selig And Travis Hil To Lead CFTC, FDIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The U.S. Senate has confirmed the appointments of two of President<strong> Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2018s nominees, who are expected to play vital roles in regulating the crypto sector.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Senate Confirms Crypto-Focused Regulators<\/h2>\n<p>The Senate confirmed\u00a0<strong>Mike Selig<\/strong>\u00a0as the head of\u00a0the Commodity Futures Trading Commission\u00a0(CFTC) and\u00a0<strong>Travis Hill<\/strong>\u00a0as the leader of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Selig, who will succeed Acting Chairman\u00a0<strong>Caroline Pham<\/strong>, is expected to play a crucial role as a crypto watchdog. The CFTC is likely to become a key\u00a0regulator of U.S. crypto activity,\u00a0particularly if Congress finalizes the legislative work to grant\u00a0more specific crypto authority to\u00a0the derivatives watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>Hill, who has been serving as the acting chairman of the FDIC, will oversee stablecoin issuers and significantly impact the banking of the crypto industry. He has already taken &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49500115\/senate-confirms-trumps-crypto-friendly-nominees-mike-selig-and-travis-hil-to-lead-cftc-fdic?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Senate\" confirms trump crypto-friendly nominees mike selig and travis hil to lead cftc fdic>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Senate has confirmed the appointments of two of President Donald Trump\u2018s nominees, who are expected to play vital roles in regulating the crypto sector. Senate Confirms Crypto-Focused Regulators The Senate confirmed\u00a0Mike Selig\u00a0as the head of\u00a0the Commodity Futures Trading Commission\u00a0(CFTC) and\u00a0Travis Hill\u00a0as the leader of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) on Thursday. Selig, [&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-64367","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\/64367","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=64367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}