Mike Selig

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632 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 2 Jul

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Bankless · Perps Are Coming Onshore | CFTC Chairman Mike Selig · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

The one issue that I have as a regulator is, I'll give you an example.

If I'm looking to catch a bad actor who's engaging in insider trading or manipulation or fraud, I can get a ton of data on Shane and I likely can pinpoint that person with enough research and analytics to figure out who they are because they probably onboarded through one of the exchanges.

Let's say they're trading in DeFi.

But I need to find a way to be able to catch some of these bad actors.

So, you know, having tools, analytics tools is very helpful.

I think the technology is in its early stages, but I do expect as on-chain technology continues to advance, it will become much easier for regulators to really lean into the technology for us to replace things like trade reporting to data repositories with on-chain transaction data because we can see the transaction occurred

that it's settled to the Ethereum blockchain or to a layer two or wherever else.

And we can figure out with a strong degree of certainty who the traders are and catch bad actors when, for example, they're trading, you know, using insider information or manipulating markets.

So I'm excited about it.

I think we're in the earlier days, but we're getting there pretty fast.

We work with a number of projects on trying to figure out how to substitute some of our existing rules and regulations for technology, how to automate things and really lean into blockchain technology.

And of course, you've got cyber risks that we're thinking about constantly.

But if we can get all of that right, I believe that blockchain technology really will revolutionize our financial markets in the near future.

Yes, Hunter Biden's a big fan of that one.

Look, I think on-chain technology, whether it's hyper liquid or any of these on-chain markets, is something that is going to, as I said, transform our markets.

And we're already seeing the global nature of blockchain technology transform the way that we're transacting here in the U.S., the way that our markets are functioning.

24-7 is also something that we greenlit.

We've had this in our crypto markets and prediction markets for some time now, but we just put out some guidance on 24-7 because exchanges are ready for it.

They're excited about it.

And I think that is really driven by blockchain technology, by perpetual sort of accessible 24-7, 365.

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