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U.S. CFTC's Pham Moves for Do-Over on 'Actual Delivery' Guidance on Crypto
In what are likely her final days at the agency, the acting chairman checked another box from President Donald Trump's crypto agenda.
By Jesse Hamilton|Edited by Nikhilesh De
Dec 11, 2025, 7:55 p.m.
Caroline Pham, acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has removed a key piece of crypto guidance. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
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- One of the leading U.S. regulators for crypto activity, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has scrapped its earlier definition for how assets change hands in a crypto commodities transaction.
- Acting Chairman Caroline Pham said the earlier guidance on "actual delivery" was withdrawn as part of President Donald Trump's efforts to create friendly crypto policies.
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Acting Chairman Caroline Pham has moved again to advance President Donald Trump's crypto agenda by eliminating old guidance on "actual delivery" of crypto commodities that she suggested might get in the way of the next steps.
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“Eliminating outdated and overly complex guidance that penalizes the crypto industry and stifles innovation is exactly what the administration has set out to do this year,” said Pham in a Thursday statement.
The guidance, established in 2020 during Trump's first term, had sought to define "actual delivery" of assets during a crypto commodity transaction — a key concept under the Commodity Exchange Act. Law firm Steptoe had sought formal guidance from the CFTC defining the term as it applied to digital assets as far back as 2016. But the President's Working Group report on the administration's digital assets agenda earlier this year recommended that the CFTC should "consider expanding upon prior guidance on 'actual delivery' of virtual assets."
The CFTC needed to cut the original document "in order to reevaluate such guidance in light of further developments during the past 5 years in the means and methods deployed in the spot market for the purchase and sale of virtual currencies," it noted in the withdrawal notice.
Pham has driven a rapid series of crypto policy moves at the agency in the past couple of weeks, even as Trump's nominee to permanently replace her, Mike Selig, is heading toward a potential confirmation as soon as next week.
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