CFTC Commissioner Mersinger to Be CEO at Blockchain Association

Summer Mersinger, one of the Republican commissioners at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, will soon take over the Blockchain Association as its incoming chief executive, a top official at the association confirmed on Wednesday.The organization, one of the leading crypto lobbying voices in Washington, will be absent a leader when longtime CEO Kristin Smith steps down this week and officially becomes president at the Solana Research Policy Institute. That vacuum at one of the largest U.S source: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/05/14/cftc-commissioner-mersinger-to-be-ceo-at-blockchain-association