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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…
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The CFTC has proposed removing a 13-year-old order book requirement for certain swap transactions, with public comments due within 30 days of its Federal Register publication. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said in an Aug. 20 regulatory notice that it…
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has prepared digital asset market structure proposals that could move forward even if Congress does not pass the CLARITY Act. Whale Insider reported on Aug. 20 that Selig said the CFTC already had regulatory proposals…
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The Commission published 400 pages of token offering rules while Congress left town. If both frameworks survive, they will contradict each other on the questions that matter most. The timing was not subtle. On Aug. 7, 2026, the United States…
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