Trump's Stalled CFTC Chair Nominee Takes Feud With Winklevoss Twins Public – Decrypt

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Brian Quintenz, President Trump's nominee to move the CFTC, publicly launched screenshots of purported Sign messages with Gemini founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss.
Quintenz claimed that they tried to derail his nomination after he would not decide to their calls for relating to CFTC reform.
In response to Quintenz, the Winklevoss brothers threatened to contact President Trump instantly concerning the matter, and his Senate affirmation vote was subsequently pulled on the White Home's request.
Brian Quintenz, President Donald Trump’s long-stalled decide to move the CFTC, escalated a spat with Gemini founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss Wednesday, publicly posting what he mentioned had been screenshots of conversations with the dual crypto entrepreneurs relating to their reported makes an attempt to derail his nomination.The photographs present what seems to be a textual content dialog on messaging app Sign between Quintenz and the Winklevosses on July 24. Decrypt reached out to a Gemini consultant to substantiate the accuracy of the screenshots, however didn't instantly obtain a response. Within the dialog, the Winklevoss brothers grill the nominee over his response to, and enthusiasm relating to, a grievance filed by their crypto trade Gemini in June over how the CFTC dealt with an investigation and eventual lawsuit in opposition to the corporate.
I’ve by no means been inclined to launch personal messages. However in mild of my help for the President and perception that he may need been misled, I’ve posted right here the messages that embrace the questions Tyler Winklevoss requested me pertaining to their prior litigation with the CFTC.
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— Brian Quintenz (@BrianQuintenz) September 10, 2025In 2022, the regulator sued Gemini for making “materials false or deceptive statements” to regulators years prior about its Bitcoin choices. Gemini in the end settled the swimsuit this January, paying $5 million with out admitting or denying any wrongdoing.Within the textual content dialog with Quintenz, the Winklevosses seem to take subject with Quintenz’s pleasure about their grievance, and flexed their closeness with the president. “Our grievance raises critical questions and issues concerning the tradition of the company that you're about to chair and its general health on the eve of it being contemplated as a significant regulator for the crypto trade,” Tyler wrote, based on the screenshots. “Cultural reform, which incorporates rectifying what occurred to us, must be the best precedence.”Per the texts, Tyler went on to quiz Quintenz about his dedication to that objective, and mentioned he was doubtlessly going to achieve out to “the president himself” to debate the matter.“I consider these texts make it clear what they had been after from me, and what I refused to vow,” Quintenz wrote at this time on X. “It’s my understanding that after this trade they contacted the president and requested that my affirmation be paused for causes apart from what's mirrored in these texts.”Quintenz went on to emphasise his closeness with Trump and his dedication to supporting his agenda.The CFTC nominee, who presently heads international coverage at enterprise capital large Andreessen Horowitz, beforehand served as a CFTC commissioner through the first Trump administration. Trump nominated him to chair the committee in February, however his affirmation has stalled for months. Days after the texts described above had been reportedly exchanged, a Senate committee pulled a vote on Quintenz’s nomination, on the request of the White Home.Within the weeks following the botched vote, prime crypto lobbying teams urged the president to face by his nomination of Quintenz, who's broadly anticipated to deal with the trade favorably at a vital second for its interplay with the CFTC.Pending crypto market construction laws would give the comparatively obscure regulator in depth new powers over the overwhelming majority of the digital asset financial system and firms together with the Winklevoss’ Gemini, which plans to go public on Wall Road later this week. Each day Debrief NewsletterStart day-after-day with the highest information tales proper now, plus unique options, a podcast, movies and extra.