Brian Quintez, the candidate of the American president Donald Trump to direct the commodity future trading commission, published an exchange of text he had with Tyler Winklevoss in his first public declaration since his confirmation process seemed to be triggered during the summer in the direction of the White House, saying that he thought that Trump “could have been misleading”.
Quintenz shared a series of text messages he said he had exchanged with Tyler Winklevoss, co -founder and CEO of Crypto Exchange Gemini – which should become public this week – and Winklevoss Capital. Cameron Winklevoss, the twin brother and co-founder of Tyler, can also be in the group cat, which was entitled “Tw-Cw-Bq” but sent no message in the screenshots shared by Quintenz. In the cat, dated July 24, Tyler Winklevoss asked Quintenz if he had seen a post on X of June 17 where Tyler announced that Gemini had filed a complaint with the CFTC Inspector General about the lawyers for the Division of Applications that had exerted accusations against Gemini.
“I believe that these texts clearly indicate what they were looking for from me and what I refused to promise,” said Quintenz in his messages, representing a very unusual decision for a candidate in the midst of a process of federal confirmation. “I understand that after this exchange, they contacted the president and asked that my confirmation be interrupted for reasons other than what is reflected in these texts.”
Before the Senate left Washington for his break in August, the appointment of Quintenz was planned for what was considered an easy procedural stage within the Senate agriculture committee to get it to the ground for his final confirmation vote. But the White House interrupted this vote for reasons which it did not clearly indicate at the time, although the co-founder of Gemini, Tyler Winklevoss, made a rhetorical campaign to stop its confirmation.
Winklevoss told Coindesk in an interview in July that he had argued that Quintenz was a bad choice because of the former commissioner’s wish to increase the CFTC budget to supervise the cryptographic industry, his opinions spent on the legal responsibility of Crypto developers and what Winklevoss characterized as the Quintenz market firm to influence the CFTC Prediction Market Kalshi.
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The quintenz position suggested on Wednesday that, in his opinion, Winklevoss was upset that Quintenz was not committed to criticizing the implementing efforts of the CFTC after the agency had charges against the Gemini which were settled in January.
“I know we talked about it in winter where I remember my original extreme disappointment at [the Enforcement Division] To continue this so aggressively, “said a text by Quintenz.” I undertake to have a fair and reasonable examination of the question and the division and of the people involved to determine if they acted inappropriately. “”
He continued by saying that a “fully confirmed chair” should be the person to manage the question, but that if someone currently used by the CFTC “communicated with” the Winklevosses, he should “think attentive”.
Winklevoss asked if Quintenz said that the Gemini should have waited to file their complaint until the Senate confirmed the former commissioner, to whom Quintenz replied that “any decision or response to your complaint should be made by and given the weight of the confirmed president”.
The executive of cryptography said that he had spoken of the implementation effort of the CFTC law against Gemini after Quintenz asked for the approval of the Winklevoss brothers in December.
“The cultural reform, which includes the rectification of what has happened to us, should be the highest priority,” said Winklevoss. “I would like to understand your reflections on this subject and how you plan to align yourself with President Trump and the administration’s mandate to end the law and make it amends.”
He added that he “would be happy to raise the problem with the president himself” if Quintenz thought he was undermined by current CFTC employees.
Quintenz, Winklevoss and a spokesperson for Gemini did not immediately return the requests for comments. Coindesk could not independently check the authenticity of the texts.
In July, a coalition that represented the vast majority of the cryptography industry came to the President of the Press Donald Trump to move forward to confirm Quintenz, the calling the “good person at the right time” to manage the CFTC. Although the Senate has been back from the break for some time and has returned to its confirmation work for many people appointed from Trump, the Committee has not yet planned to follow up for Quintenz
Meanwhile, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange committee, Paul Atkins, has advanced a “Crypto Project” initiative, friendly of the industry, while the temporary chief of the CFTC, the acting president, Caroline Pham, was held at the Sister Agency with a similar “crypto sprint”. The two have made recent joint movements to erase the regulatory path of digital assets.
