Artificial bull market? Crypto industry executives gather for first meeting of U.S. CFTC’s Innovation Advisory Committee

The crypto sector has been recovering for three consecutive days. Bitcoin briefly topped $75,000 this morning and is now holding around the $74,500 level. Following a series of positive remarks on the crypto space from US President Trump this Wednesday, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) held its first meeting of the Innovation Advisory Committee (IAC) this Thursday, chaired by CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig and other officials. The attendee list features a large number of crypto founders and executives, including Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, Uniswap Labs CEO Hayden Adams, Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, a16z crypto Managing Partner Chris Dixon, Multicoin Capital co-founder Tushar Jain, Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara, Chainlink Labs CEO Sergey Nazarov, Gemini CEO Tyler Winklevoss, Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko, plus representatives from Anchorage Digital, Grayscale, OKX, Consensys, and more. Executives from traditional financial institutions and exchanges—such as CME Group, Cboe, Nasdaq, ICE—also joined the meeting. The session focused on topics including crypto regulation evolution, artificial intelligence, and prediction markets. The CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee (IAC) was officially established on January 12, 2026. On that same day, CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig announced the launch of the committee, which was renamed from the former Technology Advisory Committee to advise the commission on innovative areas like fintech, crypto assets, and artificial intelligence.