CFTC’s Caroline Pham says agency can regulate nearly all commodities

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CFTC’s Caroline Pham says agency can regulate nearly all commodities, according to Crypto Briefing. The post CFTC’s Caroline Pham says agency can regulate nearly all commodities appeared first on Crypto Briefing . Pham has a short list of things the Commodity Futures Trading Commission cannot regulate.

It contains onions and movie box office receipts. Almost everything else, she argues, falls under the agency’s reach.

That contains digital assets, and she says it works without Congress passing a new law. In an interview on October 12, 2026, the former acting chairman of the CFTC said the Commodity Exchange Act gives the agency jurisdiction over virtually every commodity.

She also backed the agency’s recent crypto proposals. Pham called them “absolutely the kind of protection” that US retail crypto traders need.

The CFTC is in the middle of writing rules for how everyday Americans trade crypto, including with borrowed money. The onion exception Pham’s argument rests on the Commodity Exchange Act, or CEA. That law is the CFTC’s founding rulebook.