CFTC Chair Selig Appoints Crypto Leaders to 35-Member Innovation Advisory Panel

The official CFTC press release and the Morgan Stanley-hosted podcast summarizing that same release both confirm that CFTC Chair Selig announced the establishment of an Innovation Advisory Committee and appointed its members. The committee is described as having 35 members, including several individuals from cryptocurrency and blockchain firms, aligning directly with the statement. These sources are primary and authoritative, providing direct confirmation of the Chair’s actions and the composition of the panel. Other official CFTC materials reaffirm the committee’s existence and leadership by Chair Selig without contradiction. No credible source challenges or disproves the claim, and peripheral sources (such as third-party institutional publications and Wikipedia) only offer general contextual information rather than conflicting details. Given the consistency and reliability of the official documentation, the statement that Chair Selig appointed several cryptocurrency industry leaders to a 35-member Innovation Advisory Panel is almost certainly true.