Brian Quintenz, a former commissioner with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission who left the agency last year, is amplifying his role at crypto venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) from advising to taking over as its head of policy, the company said on Tuesday.

The chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Rostin Behnam, has challenged Congress to move fast and enact legislation to <a href="https://finbold.com/category/regulations-news/">regulate</a> the <a href="https://finbold.com/cryptocurrencies">cryptocurrency space</a>.&nbsp;

Only <a target="_blank" href="https://cryptonews.com/coins/bitcoin/">bitcoin (BTC)</a> should be considered a commodity for regulatory purposes, and not <a target="_blank" href="https://cryptonews.com/coins/ethereum/">ethereum (ETH)</a>, Rostin Behnam, chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said in a recent speech.

The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has revealed that he and his team met with Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX executives 10 times before the crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy. The regulator sees the FTX collapse as “a classic run based on liquidity crunch.”

The CFTC should tap “existing authority to further mitigate potential risks to all customer assets,” Johnson said in a statement on Thursday, citing the cryptocurrency industry drama ignited by the detonation of the FTX exchange. She labeled her statement a “call to action” against digital-assets fraud.

In a Dec. 1 hearing of the Senate Agriculture Committee exploring the collapse of FTX, Behnam <a href="https://www.agriculture.senate.gov/hearings/why-congress-needs-to-act-lessons-learned-from-the-ftx-collapse" target="_blank">said</a> LedgerX had essentially been “walled off” from many of the companies within FTX Group — including those that filed for bankruptcy — that provided a regulatory window for the CFTC. The CFTC chair said LedgerX was “healthy”, “solvent”, and “operational” compared to other FTX entities.

Cryptocurrency may be a threat to America’s national security and more regulation is needed in the space now, Commodities Futures Trading Commission Chair Rostin Behnam said today.&nbsp;

Rostin Benham – chairman of the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) – has walked back previous claims that Ether (ETH) and other altcoins should fall under his agency’s jurisdiction.&nbsp;

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has been publicly advocating for quite some time that both Bitcoin and Ethereum (ETH) are commodities. However, that regulatory assessment appears to have changed radically yesterday.

United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero spoke at the Futures Industry Association Asia Derivatives Conference in Singapore on Nov. 30. She talked about “how to harness the best that technology offers, while protecting against emerging threats,” with particular emphasis on cybersecurity and crypto.&nbsp;