Ripple (XRP) CEO Brad Garlinghouse joined the inaugural Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Innovation Advisory Committee alongside traditional finance giants on Friday, as the White House’s crypto adviser said regulators were “locked and loaded” to push out rulemaking with or without the Digital Market Asset Clarity Act, also known as the CLARITY Act.
Garlinghouse called the gathering “the Olympic roster of crypto,” saying the committee also included Nasdaq (NDAQ), New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Cboe Global Markets(CBOE), the Options Clearing Corporation and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).
“But for a ‘crypto’ gathering, there were a LOT of TradFi players in the room,” he wrote on X, adding that the…






