Trump’s First Democratic Picks for SEC and CFTC Could Reshape Crypto’s Regulators
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• By Decrypt Staff Edited by Guillermo Jimenez Nov 13, 2026 Nov 13, 2026 4 min read US capitol building in D.C. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt Create an account to save your articles.
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• In brief Trump sent four nominees to the Senate for the CFTC and SEC, including his first Democratic picks for either agency.
• Both CFTC nominees worked on the Clarity Act; Levine would replace crypto advocate Hester Peirce at SEC, while Johnson, with a consumer-protection record, would take skeptic Caroline Crenshaw’s SEC seat.
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• By Decrypt Staff Edited by Guillermo Jimenez Nov 13, 2026 Nov 13, 2026 4 min read US capitol building in D.C. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt Create an account to save your articles.
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• In brief Trump sent four nominees to the Senate for the CFTC and SEC, including his first Democratic picks for either agency.
• Both CFTC nominees worked on the Clarity Act; Levine would replace crypto advocate Hester Peirce at SEC, while Johnson, with a consumer-protection record, would take skeptic Caroline Crenshaw’s SEC seat.
#Regulation
Source - Decrypt
