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