Rostin Behnam, the chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), plans to resign on January 20. During his tenure, Behnam expressed concerns about the regulation of digital assets, stating that the regulation of digital assets, including Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, is still insufficient. He emphasized that there is still a significant portion of the digital asset space that remains unregulated within the U.S. regulatory framework, which poses a gap that needs to be filled for the adoption by traditional financial institutions and the demand for these products by retail and institutional investors. Behnam also mentioned that the CFTC is still in a favorable position to become the regulator of spot digital commodity assets. Furthermore, he warned of a regulatory 'gap' in cryptocurrency and called for more scrutiny of the political market.