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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has officially appointed executives from Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Ripple, Chainlink, and other major crypto firms to a newly formed federal advisory committee.

The group's mandate is to help shape emerging policy around digital asset markets, derivatives oversight, and financial innovation. What's significant here isn't that crypto companies are engaging with regulators—that's been happening for years through lobbying and public comment periods. What's different is formalization.

These executives now hold advisory positions on a federal committee, which means they have structured input into policy development before rules are finalized. That's not the same as writing the rules, but it's closer than most industries ever get. The composition matters too.

You've got exchanges like Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini—companies that directly interface with retail users and institutional clients. Then you have Ripple, which has been in a multi-year legal battle with the SEC, and Chainlink, which represents oracle infrastructure that sits between blockchains and real-world data.

That's a wide range of perspectives, and it suggests the CFTC is trying to account for different layers of the stack when drafting policy. Whether this results in better regulation or just regulatory capture is the open question, but either way, the dynamic has shifted.

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Regulační posun: Evropské přezkoumání rizik kryptoměn a debata o politice

V Itálii úřady zahájily "hloubkovou" revizi rizik investic do kryptoměn, což signalizuje rostoucí obavy o ochranu retailových investorů a systémovou stabilitu. Reuters
Mezitím v Polsku Parlament potvrdil prezidentské veto na návrh zákona, který by sladit regulaci kryptoměn s MiCA — rámcem kryptoměn Evropské unie. Veto brání přísnějšímu dohledu a trestním sankcím za zneužití, což podtrhuje probíhající politické rozdělení ohledně toho, jak přísně by měly být kryptoměny regulovány. Reuters.
Tyto události zdůrazňují rostoucí regulační rozdělení v Evropě — a nejistotu, které čelí institucionální investoři při zvažování přeshraniční expozice kryptoměn.

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