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Former CFTC chair joins board of crypto investment firm
Crypto investment firm CoinFund has onboarded a former leader in the U.S. regulation space to its advisory board. Per a January 13 announcement shared with The Block, former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair J. Christopher Giancarlo will join CoinFund as a strategic advisor. “It’s pretty high-level strategy," Giancarlo tells The Block, explaining that he hopes he "can help them peer into the future a bit." In particular, Giancarlo emphasized his work with brokerage firm GFI Group, and especially its 2005 initial public offering, as critical to his understanding of how to shepherd firms through ... (full story)