Overview
- Giancarlo, who disclosed the shift Sunday on X, retired from law practice at Willkie Farr & Gallagher to advise crypto and fintech firms full time.
- He said he will counsel founders, CEOs, and boards, do policy research and nonprofit work, and invest in digital assets and AI.
- He will also promote a new book, The New Adventures of CryptoDad, which Wiley plans to publish in October 2026.
- His résumé includes leading the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2017 to 2019, clearing the first U.S. bitcoin futures at CME and Cboe, launching LabCFTC, and co-founding the Digital Dollar Project to study a U.S. central bank digital currency.
- The shift tracks a wider move of regulators into crypto, including Caroline Pham’s jump to MoonPay, and it comes as Congress weighs stablecoin rules and the CLARITY Act on market structure.