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Former commissioner and current Chief of Policy at a16z Crypto, Brian Quintenz, is reportedly in the running to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under the Trump administration. According to a Bloomberg report, insider sources who wish to stay anonymous…
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed a civil enforcement action against Washington State pastor Francier Obando Pinillo for allegedly operating a fraudulent multilevel marketing scheme involving digital assets. The scheme, run through entities under the ‘Solanofi’ name, targeted over…
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The U.S. President-elect’s administration is considering the commodity trading authority to take over the crypto regulations. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is in Donald Trump’s eye to lead the emerging financial industry, cryptocurrency, after the exchange commission weighed on…
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An advisory committee of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has voted in favor of allowing tokenized assets to be used as collateral for margin trading. The CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee forwarded the recommendation around these blockchain or distributed ledger…
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President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is reportedly exploring the creation of a “crypto czar” role to oversee digital asset policy, with former Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Chris Giancarlo emerging as a top contender. This potential position would mark the…
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Will Congress fix crypto regulation before it’s too late? Behnam says the lack of legal clarity leaves the CFTC “handcuffed” as the crypto market continues to evolve. CFTC is “handcuffed” U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Rostin Behnam is raising…
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U.S. regulators have imposed $32 billion in fines on crypto companies to resolve compliance disputes. Who did they make the most money from? Of the total, a record $19.45 billion came in 2024. This is due to the $12.7 billion…
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Following court battles with the CFTC, Kalshi has won approval to list prediction contracts on which political party will dominate Congress. Kalshi, the sole U.S.-regulated prediction market, can resume listing its Congressional event contracts in America, a United States Court…
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New York resident William Koo Ichioka agreed to pay $36 million in a CFTC case alleging cryptocurrency and forex fraud. According to a Sept. 20 notice, Judge Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California…
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Wintermute plans to foray into the on-chain prediction market, with its first betting pool focused on the U.S. presidential elections. The crypto trading firm and market maker Wintermute disclosed ongoing work on an on-chain betting platform, OutcomeMarket. The decentralized protocol…
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A new crypto bill on Capitol Hill seeks to share oversight powers between the SEC and CFTC, two regulatory juggernauts. Introduced by U.S. Representative John Rose of Tennessee, the Bridging Regulation and Innovation for Digital Global and Electronic Digital Assets would establish a…
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A U.S. District Court has ruled in favor of the Kalshi prediction market, effectively approving betting on the presidential election’s outcome. Kalshi has won a lawsuit against the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) after the regulator banned betting on…
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Decentralized exchange Uniswap has settled with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over illegal digital asset derivatives trading. Per a CFTC notice on Sept. 4, Uniswap Labs, the entity behind Ethereum’s (ETH) largest DEX, was accused of unlawfully offering leveraged and…
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The bankrupt crypto exchange FTX and its sister firm Alameda Research will pay nearly $13 billion to creditors, bringing an end to a months-long lawsuit filed by the CFTC. The defunct crypto exchange FTX alongside its trading firm Alameda Research…
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CFTC chairman Rostin Behnam wants more funding and regulatory authority to oversee cryptocurrency spot markets as lawmakers edge closer to comprehensive legislation.
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is reportedly investigating Jump Crypto, a crypto trading and Web3 infrastructure development firm of Jump Trading Group. Fortune reported that CFTC was also looking into the Chicago-based crypto firm’s investing activities. CFTC and…
