{"id":630310,"date":"2026-07-16T16:52:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/ethics-in-crypto-market-structure-really-not-our-concern-says-blockchain-association-ceo\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:52:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:52:48","slug":"ethics-in-crypto-market-structure-really-not-our-concern-says-blockchain-association-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/ethics-in-crypto-market-structure-really-not-our-concern-says-blockchain-association-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics in crypto market structure \u2018really not our concern,\u2019 says Blockchain Association CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/hi-ethical-considerations-in-ai-development-and-deployment.png\" alt=\"Ethics in crypto market structure \u2018really not our concern,\u2019 says Blockchain Association CEO\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A former CFTC commissioner urged lawmakers not to \u201ckill all the hard work that we put in the rest of the bill\u201d by making ethics a make-or-break issue on crypto market structure. <\/p>\n<p>Summer Mersinger, the CEO of the Blockchain Association and a former commissioner at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), anticipated a vote on a cryptocurrency market structure bill as soon as next week with the window closing for lawmakers before August state work periods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Injective Summit in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Mersinger <a href=\"https:\/\/injective.com\/summit\">said<\/a> that US lawmakers working to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act in Congress had a \u201cfew little nits that they\u2019re still working out\u201d but were \u201cvery close on the main part of the language\u201d around the bill. According to the Blockchain Association CEO, a vote in the Senate could come as early as next week, provided lawmakers reached an agreement on ethics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEthics is the big elephant in the room,\u201d said Mersinger on the crypto bill. \u201cThat\u2019s what we hear from every office is that we\u2019ve gotta figure out ethics. Today there\u2019s a meeting at the White House with some Republican senators. We\u2019re hopeful that an agreement comes out of that and that it\u2019s something the Democrats will accept or that they can make some changes but get to an agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/ethics-crypto-market-structure-concerns-blockchain-ceo\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former CFTC commissioner urged lawmakers not to \u201ckill all the hard work that we put in the rest of the bill\u201d by making ethics a make-or-break issue on crypto market structure. Summer Mersinger, the CEO of the Blockchain Association and a former commissioner at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), anticipated a vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":630311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-630310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}