The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has launched an Innovation Advisory Committee, or IAC, to help shape policy around emerging technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence in financial markets. Among the listed members are Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, putting two of the most prominent crypto executives inside a formal regulatory advisory process.
The committee is designed to work with the CFTC on policy development for fast-changing technologies. According to the source material, the move reflects an effort by the agency to address how blockchain and AI are being applied across U.S. finance. It also places crypto firms and established financial institutions in the same forum as rules for future markets are discussed.
Crypto executives named alongside major industry figures
Garlinghouse and Armstrong are not the only digital-asset leaders on the roster. The committee also includes Kraken’s Arjun Sethi, Gemini’s Tyler Winklevoss, Uniswap’s Hayden Adams, Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov, Crypto.com’s Kris Marszalek, and Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko. Their inclusion points to a wider role for the crypto sector in conversations that may affect how digital assets are supervised in the U.S.
The article frames their participation as a chance to bring operational and market experience into the regulatory process. Exchange operators, protocol builders, and infrastructure companies each face different compliance questions, and the committee gives those perspectives a route into policy discussions.
Committee structure brings crypto and traditional finance together
The IAC also includes representatives from traditional financial organizations such as Nasdaq and CME Group, according to the report. That mix suggests the committee will examine regulation from both sides of the market, with crypto-native firms and legacy financial players contributing to the same policy debates.
For the crypto sector, the development creates a more direct line into a CFTC advisory body at a time when regulatory clarity remains a central issue for U.S. digital-asset businesses. The source describes the move as a meaningful step in building rules that can account for innovation while preserving regulatory oversight.