Trump’s CFTC hopes Quintenz takes his dispute with Gemini’s Tyler Winklevoss Public

Brian Quintez, the nominee of President Donald Trump’s president to run the commodity futures trade commission, published a text exchange that he had with Tyler Winklevoss in his first public statement because his confirmation process appeared in the Tag -Sun in the White House, saying he believed that Trump was “

Fifth shared a series of text messages He said he would replace Tyler Winklevoss, co-founder and CEO of Crypto Exchange Gemini-which is set to go public this week-and winklevoss capital. Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler’s twin brothers and co-founder, may also be in the group’s chat, entitled “TW-CW-BQ” but did not send any messages to the screenshots shared by Quintenz. In chat, dated on July 24, Tyler Winklevoss asked Quintenz if he saw A post on X from June 17 Tyler announced that Gemini filed a complaint with the CFTC inspector about the Division of Enforcement Attorneys pursuing charges against Gemini.

“I believe these texts are obviously what they are from me, and what I refuse to promise,” Quintenz said in his posts, representing an unusual move for a nominee in the midst of a federal confirmation process. “I understand that after this exchange they contacted the president and asked that my confirmation would be paused for reasons other than what these texts were seen.”

Before the Senate left Washington for a break in August, Quintenz’s nomination was set for what was thought to be an easy -to -step procedure on the Senate Agriculture Committee to advance it to the floor for his final confirmation vote. But the White House That vote was stopped For those reasons it was unclear at that time, even Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss had waited a rhetorical campaign to stop his confirmation.

Winklevoss told CoinDesk in an interview in July that he wanted Case Quintenz is a bad choice Due to the former commissioner who wants to increase the CFTC budget to facilitate the crypto industry, his previous perspective on legal responsibility for crypto developers and what Winklevoss has described as Quintenz’s incorrect attempt to influence the CFTC on the name of the Prophet’s Prophecy.

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Quintenz’s post on Wednesday suggested that, in his view, Winklevoss was angry that Quintenz did not participate in criticizing CFTC’s implementation efforts after the agency continued the charges against Gemini That was fixed in January.

“I know we talked about it in the winter where I remembered my original intense disappointment in (the Enforcement Division) for its continued aggressiveness,” a text from Quintenz. “I do with you having a fair and rational examination of the object and the division and individuals involved to determine if they act inappropriately.”

He said that a “fully confirmed seat” should be the person to handle this thing, but if a person currently working with the CFTC is “talking to” The Winklevosses, he needs to “give up the careful thinking.”

Winklevoss asked if Quintenz said Gemini should wait to file their complaint until after the Senate confirmed the former commissioner, in which Quintenz replied that “any decision or response to your complaint should be made and given the full weight of the confirmed seat.”

The crypto executive said they spoke about the CFTC’s implementation efforts against Gemini after Quintenz asked the Winklevoss Brothers endorsement in December.

“Cultural reform, which includes correction of what happened to us, should be the highest priority,” Winklevoss said. “I want to understand your thoughts about it and how you plan to be in line with President Trump and the administration’s command to end the law and make changes for it.”

He added that “he would be happy to raise the issue to the President himself” if Quintenz thought he was hurt by current CFTC employees.

Quintenz, Winklevoss and a spokesman for Gemini did not immediately return requests for the comment. CoinDesk cannot be united to verify the authenticity of the texts.

In July, a coalition representing most of the crypto industry came out Press Press President Donald Trump to move forward To confirm Quintenz, who called him “the right person at the right time” to run the CFTC. Although the Senate returned from rest for a while and returned to its confirmation for many of Trump’s appointments, the committee has not yet scheduled a follow-up vote for Quintenz

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Paul Atkins forced a “friendly-friendly” crypto project “while the temporary leader of the CFTC, acting chairman Caroline Pham was standing at the brother’s agency with a similar” Crypto Sprint. “Both of them have made recent joint motions to cleanse the regulation path for digital ownership.