Former Acting Chair Caroline Pham says CFTC can regulate almost everything except ‘onions and box office receipts’

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Crypto retail traders in the United States are directly affected by Pham’s remarks because she tied the CFTC’s recent proposals to protections for them. The sector also gets a clearer picture of how broad the agency’s reach could be if her view is adopted in practice, including digital assets and nearly all commodities.

In practice, the boundary she described is wider than a narrow crypto-only framework: she said the CFTC can regulate nearly all commodities and almost everything except onions and box office receipts. At the same time, her comments left room for digital assets, stablecoins, and tokenized deposits to sit in different regulatory buckets rather than one single treatment.

What remains open is how any of this would be applied to specific asset types and whether new legislation would still be needed for parts of the market. One piece says existing law may already cover digital assets, but it does not settle which products fall where or what formal action would confirm that view. (per crypto.news)

The move was larger before the first headline than after. That is an observation, not an explanation: the market also moves on things nobody publishes.