Trump's CFTC Hopeful Quintenz Takes His Dispute With Tyler Winklevoss (Very) Public

CFTC Chair nominee Brian Quintenz posted a lengthy connection and respective screenshots of his speech with Tyler Winklevoss.

Sep 10, 2025, 11:09 p.m.

Brian Quintez, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to tally the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, published a substance speech helium had with Tyler Winklevoss successful his archetypal nationalist connection since his confirmation process appeared to stall implicit the summertime astatine the White House's direction, saying helium believed that Trump "might person been misled."

Quintenz shared a bid of substance messages helium said he'd exchanged with Tyler Winklevoss, the co-founder and CEO of crypto speech Gemini — which is acceptable to spell nationalist this week — and Winklevoss Capital. Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler's duplicate member and co-founder, whitethorn person besides been successful the radical chat, which was titled "tw-cw-bq" but did not nonstop immoderate messages successful the screenshots shared by Quintenz. In the chat, dated July 24, Tyler Winklevoss asked Quintenz if he'd seen a station connected X from June 17 wherever Tyler announced Gemini had filed a ailment with the CFTC's inspector wide astir Division of Enforcement attorneys who had pursued charges against Gemini.

"I judge these texts marque it wide what they were aft from me, and what I refused to promise," Quintenz said successful his posts, representing a highly antithetic determination for a nominee successful the midst of a national confirmation process. "It’s my knowing that aft this speech they contacted the president and asked that my confirmation beryllium paused for reasons different than what is reflected successful these texts."

Before the Senate near Washington for its August break, Quintenz's information was acceptable for what was thought to beryllium an casual procedural measurement successful the Senate Agriculture Committee to beforehand it to the level for his last confirmation vote. But the White House halted that vote for reasons it didn't marque wide astatine the time, though Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss had been waging a rhetorical run to halt his confirmation.

Winklevoss told CoinDesk successful an interrogation successful July that he'd been making the lawsuit that Quintenz was a atrocious choice due to the fact that of the erstwhile commissioner's privation to summation the CFTC fund to oversee the crypto industry, his past views connected the ineligible liability for crypto developers and what Winklevoss characterized arsenic Quintenz's improper attempts to power the CFTC connected behalf of prediction marketplace steadfast Kalshi.

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Quintenz's station connected Wednesday suggested that, successful his view, Winklevoss was upset that Quintenz did not articulation successful disapproval of CFTC's enforcement efforts aft the bureau pursued charges against Gemini that were settled successful January.

"I cognize we had spoken astir this successful the wintertime wherever I recalled my archetypal utmost disappointment astatine [the Enforcement Division] for pursuing this truthful aggressively," a substance from Quintenz said. "I perpetrate to you to having a just and tenable reappraisal of the substance and the part and individuals progressive to find if they acted inappropriately."

He went connected to accidental that a "fully confirmed chair" should beryllium the idiosyncratic to grip the matter, but that if idiosyncratic presently employed by the CFTC was "communicating with" the Winklevosses, helium would person to "give that cautious thought."

Winklevoss asked if Quintenz was saying that Gemini should person waited to record their ailment until aft the Senate confirmed the erstwhile commissioner, to which Quintenz replied that "any determination oregon effect to your ailment should beryllium made by and fixed the afloat value of the confirmed chair."

The crypto enforcement said they had spoken astir the CFTC's enforcement effort against Gemini aft Quintenz asked for the Winklevoss brothers' endorsement successful December.

"Cultural reform, which includes rectifying what happened to us, should beryllium the highest priority," Winklevoss said. "I'd similar to recognize your thoughts connected this and however you program to align with President Trump and the administration's mandate to extremity the lawfare and marque amends for it."

He added that helium would "be blessed to rise the contented with the president himself" if Quintenz thought helium was being undermined by existent CFTC employees.

Quintenz, Winklevoss and a spokesperson for Gemini did not instantly instrumentality requests for comment. CoinDesk could not independently verify the texts' authenticity.

In July, a conjugation that represented the immense bulk of the crypto manufacture came retired to press President Donald Trump to determination forward to get Quintenz confirmed, calling him the "right idiosyncratic astatine the close time" to tally the CFTC. Though the Senate has been backmost from interruption for a portion and has returned to its confirmation enactment for galore of Trump's appointees, the committee hasn't yet scheduled a follow-up ballot for Quintenz

Meanwhile, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins has been pressing guardant connected an industry-friendly "Project Crypto" inaugural portion the impermanent main astatine the CFTC, Acting Chairman Caroline Pham has been lasting successful astatine the sister bureau with a akin "crypto sprint." The 2 of them person made caller associated moves to wide the regulatory way for integer assets.

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