CFTC puts crypto jurisdiction on August 20 agenda – What changes?

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] will hold its inaugural Innovation Advisory Committee meeting on the 20th of August. Crypto regulation will sit at the center of the committee’s first agenda.

On the 13th of August, CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig released the meeting’s agenda. The committee will examine crypto regulation’s history and the consequences of overlapping regulatory jurisdiction.

Members will also discuss “regulation by enforcement” and barriers to creating a permanent federal crypto market structure.

How active has CFTC enforcement been?

The CFTC’s 2026 enforcement docket remained active before the meeting. The commission announced four enforcement actions between the 7th of July and the 11th of August.

On the 7th of July, the CFTC charged a North Carolina commodity pool operator and his company with fraud. On the 31st of July, it ordered George Santos to pay $35,000 over manipulative event-contract trading. The commission then ordered UBS Financial Services to pay $8 million over supervision failures affecting its Anti-Money Laundering systems.

Most recently, it charged Goliath Ventures and its CEO over an alleged $400 million fraud scheme.

However, prediction-market cases carried the clearest connection to the committee’s regulatory debate. The CFTC’s complaint against Google employee Michele Spagnuolo sought restitution, disgorgement, and civil monetary penalties.