The Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), J. Christopher Giancarlo, told government technology executives at an event that blockchain technology is in our national interest; Coindesk reports that the chairman said, "Distributed ledger and blockchain technologies ... are going to challenge orthodoxies that are foundational to our financial infrastructure."; he also discussed agencies moving beyond just talk of implementation but to actually try to use the tech within their agency's. Source.
Discusses the political and legal context for development of the agency's initiatives; outlines the Project KISS and LabCFTC initiatives which were announced in May 2017; provides an overview of the objectives involved and includes details on Guidepoint and CFTC 2.0 which are important aspects of LabCFTC. Source
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