Overview
- MoonPay said Pham will become chief legal and administrative officer and lead the company’s policy and regulatory strategy in Washington.
- Pham’s departure from the CFTC will occur once Mike Selig is sworn in as permanent chair following the Senate’s advancement of his nomination.
- Under Pham, the CFTC enabled listed spot crypto products on regulated venues, launched a pilot allowing bitcoin, ether and certain stablecoins as derivatives collateral, and moved to rescind prior ‘actual delivery’ guidance.
- She also created the CEO Innovation Council and backed sandbox efforts on tokenization to shift the agency toward formal market‑structure rulemaking.
- MoonPay, which holds a New York BitLicense and a limited‑purpose trust charter, highlighted Pham’s regulatory experience as crypto firms increasingly recruit senior U.S. policymakers.