After two years of enforcement actions, state bans, and competing jurisdictional claims, the CFTC has submitted its event contracts proposal to the White House Office of Management and Budget, formally initiating the federal rulemaking process. The details of the proposal have not been published. But the CFTC’s direction has been clear for some time. Chairman…
U.S. President Donald Trump said it was “critically important” that the CFTC keep “exclusive authority” over prediction markets, echoing CFTC Chair Michael Selig in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform, late Tuesday afternoon. “Under my leadership, we are setting ‘rules of the road’ that are the Gold Standard for the States,” he…
A crypto analyst has spotlighted May 14 as a pivotal date for XRP, one that could potentially unlock a staggering $20 trillion inflow into the cryptocurrency market. According to him, May 14 is slated as the scheduled voting date for the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act. With months of negotiations and debates finally over and…
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Mike Selig told CoinDesk that the agency will continue to defend its “exclusive regulatory authority” to oversee prediction markets in court. “It doesn’t matter if it’s on sports, politics or anything else, if it’s a validly offered product within a CFTC-regulated exchange, then we regulate that,” Selig said. You’re reading…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has asked a federal court in Arizona to stop the state from using its gambling and criminal laws against federally regulated prediction markets. Singapore Summit: Meet the largest APAC brokers you know (and those you still don’t!) The regulator filed a motion on Wednesday seeking a preliminary injunction and…
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Key Takeaways The SEC published interpretive guidance on March 17 classifying crypto into five distinct categories under federal securities law. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and other named digital commodities are not securities under the new framework. A formal rulemaking proposal of more than 400 pages, including an innovation exemption, is expected within two weeks. Mar. 18…
Most crypto assets are not securities, according to new guidance jointly issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The interpretation, issued by the two regulators in a joint statement on Tuesday, sets out how federal laws apply to digital assets. It defines when a token moves…
TLDR: The CFTC issued a prediction markets advisory on February 25, 2026, following two Kalshi enforcement cases. A political candidate received a five-year Kalshi ban and a $2,246.36 penalty for trading on his own candidacy. A YouTube editor was fined $20,397.58 and suspended two years for trading on material nonpublic information. The CFTC confirmed full…