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October 20, 2026 @ 10:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) urged a federal court to dismiss CME Group’s lawsuit challenging the agency’s authorization of perpetual futures contracts on digital assets. The filing, submitted in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, contends that the exchange operator has… Read More

October 19, 2026 @ 9:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent nationwide survey reveals that a clear majority of US adults oppose the use of prediction markets for wagering on elections and other government-related events, even as these platforms expand rapidly and draw regulatory scrutiny. The research findings, from a Reuters/Ipsos poll, highlight bipartisan… Read More

October 16, 2026 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York (SDNY denied a joint motion by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Gemini Trust Company LLC seeking to vacate a consent order entered on January 6, 2025. The order resolved a 2022… Read More

October 13, 2026 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) emerging rules for leveraged retail cryptocurrency trading face a realistic risk of stalling or unraveling before the 2028 US presidential election, according to analysis from TD Cowen. In a note dated October 12, 2026, Jaret Seiberg, managing director at… Read More

October 6, 2026 @ 10:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued proposed rules aiming to support digital asset innovation while protecting investors. Crypto proponents view the digital asset sector as key to the US maintaining its global leadership in financial services. Multiple jurisdictions worldwide have begun or already… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) has recently secured registration from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for Coinbase Clearing LLC as a derivatives clearing organization, a step that closes a long-running gap in the company’s regulated US derivatives business. The CFTC recorded the status as registered… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 11:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued Cash FX Group S.A. and several associated individuals, alleging they ran a vast multilevel marketing operation that collected more than $950 million under the pretense of pooled retail foreign-exchange trading. The civil complaint, filed in the… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 9:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OG.com Markets has asked US commodity regulators to let it list a new class of equity derivatives that never mature: cash-settled perpetual futures on individual American stocks. The request, submitted last week to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), would allow the platform to offer… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 6:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US derivatives regulators have drawn a sharper line around a fast-growing corner of prediction markets: contracts that pay out based on what a named person says, where that person appears, or whom that person meets. On September 22, 2026, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC)… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 1:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal regulators have quietly authorized multiple inquiries into unusual activity on a major prediction-markets platform, according to internal records released through a public-records request. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) signed off on at least three previously undisclosed probes into Polymarket event contracts tied to… Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 4:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kalshi has begun offering perpetual futures tied to gold and silver after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) cleared the listings, marking the prediction-market operator’s first move of this product type beyond digital assets. Trading in the new contracts opened Thursday on the company’s platform,… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 5:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has asked a federal judge to throw out CME Group’s challenge to the agency’s approval of cryptocurrency perpetual futures, arguing that the world’s largest derivatives exchange has not shown a legally cognizable injury. In a motion filed September… Read More

August 30, 2026 @ 1:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A federal appeals panel has given Nevada a significant win in its clash with prediction market operator Kalshi, holding that sports-event contracts listed on the company’s exchange are not “swaps” under federal commodities law and therefore are not shielded from state gaming rules. On August… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Hyperliquid Policy Center has formally urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to establish a coordinated regulatory approach for perpetual contracts. In a comment letter submitted on August 24, 2026, the group responded to a joint… Read More

August 20, 2026 @ 6:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

During the CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee meeting today, there was an interesting exchange between CME Group CEO Terry Duffy and CFTC Chairman Mike Selig. Duffy expressed his support for the crypto industry, something they have participated in since 2017, as well as artificial intelligence, utilized… Read More

August 19, 2026 @ 9:16 am By JD Alois  |  

It is a big week in Washington, D.C., for the crypto and prediction market industries. First, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced new rules, Regulation Crypto Assets, to provide a regulated path to issue and trade certain crypto assets. The move was somewhat surprising, as… Read More

August 15, 2026 @ 2:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kalshi, one of the largest US prediction markets platforms, has reportedly removed its sports-related “mention markets” following the launch of a review by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) into this category of contracts. The agency is examining whether these markets are particularly vulnerable to… Read More

August 14, 2026 @ 1:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A King County Superior Court judge has ordered the prediction market platform Kalshi to halt most of its offerings available to users in Washington state. The ruling stems from a finding that the company likely breached the Washington Gambling Act along with the Consumer Protection Act by conducting… Read More

August 12, 2026 @ 9:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission, along with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, filed fraud charges against Goliath Ventures and its founder, Christopher Delgado. The enforcement action alleges that Goliath and its founder created a $425 million crypto Ponzi scam. From at least January 2023… Read More

August 12, 2026 @ 3:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has invoked emergency powers to maintain orderly operations in regard to prediction markets. The action followed a formal alert from KalshiEX, LLC regarding an emerging market disruption. The move stems from a lawsuit initiated by New York Attorney General… Read More