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Singapore Exchange has secured CFTC authorization to give U.S. institutional investors direct access to its Bitcoin and Ether perpetual futures, opening its existing crypto derivatives order books to American trading firms. SGX Group head of crypto derivatives KC Lam told…
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The Hyperliquid Policy Center has asked a federal court to dismiss CME Group’s lawsuit against the CFTC, arguing that the derivatives exchange lacks standing and cannot rely on the Commodity Exchange Act provisions cited in its complaint. Hyperliquid policy group…
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The House killed eight voting days, Polymarket odds crashed from 82% to 16%, and the ethics clause nobody can agree on may bury the most important crypto bill in a generation. The CLARITY Act was supposed to be the easy…
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The cloture vote, the CPI print, the FOMC decision, and the SEC’s 24-hour trading roundtable all fall in the same 10-day window. The outcome will shape crypto regulation for the rest of the decade. The United States Senate has 14…
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The CFTC asked a federal court to dismiss CME’s challenge to its classification of Kalshi’s Bitcoin perpetual contract as futures.
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Kalshi reportedly plans to seek CFTC approval for a WTI perpetual futures contract offering continuous weekday oil trading in the U.S.
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The United States Senate returns from its August recess on September 14 with exactly 14 working days to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before midterm campaigning shuts down the legislative calendar. A cloture vote scheduled for September 15…
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A prediction market that went from zero revenue to a billion dollar run rate in six months is signing deals with major sports leagues while state attorneys general line up to call it illegal gambling. The sports league playbook The…
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A former White House teleprompter operator has agreed to pay $172,539 after U.S. regulators found he used advance access to President Donald Trump’s speeches to make more than $107,500 trading prediction market contracts. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on…
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A Ninth Circuit ruling against Kalshi raises legal risks for CFTC prediction-market rules but does not invalidate the agency’s proposal.
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The CFTC warned consumers about irreversible crypto ATM payments after FBI data showed over $388 million in reported 2025 losses.
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Hyperliquid Policy Center and trade[XYZ] have asked the CFTC to permit regulated perpetual contracts tied to WTI crude, Brent crude, and Henry Hub natural gas after their markets recorded more than $500 billion in cumulative volume. Hyperliquid Policy Center and…
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The CFTC entered a criminal Polymarket case to defend its view that event contracts are swaps covered by commodities law.
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Hyperliquid Policy Center has asked the SEC and CFTC to let qualifying equity perpetual contracts enter the U.S. as security futures after HIP-3 markets processed more than $480 billion in notional trading volume over their first 10 months. Hyperliquid Policy…
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Kalshi blocked Washington users and requested reconsideration as the CFTC prepares new federal rules governing prediction markets.
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CME Chairman Terry Duffy and Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara traded insults at a CFTC roundtable over whether prediction markets are legitimate financial infrastructure or carnival games. The confrontation is the public face of a deeper regulatory battle between federal…