The agency plans to appeal the case brought by the trading platform, and could still ask the higher court to stop the firm from listing the contracts.
The agency says it can't make "an informed decision" about whether to appeal the judge's decision in Kalshi's favor until it knows her rationale.
One CFTC commissioner dissented, calling the action “regulation by enforcement.”
Uniswap Labs will pay $175,000 to settle charges it offered illegal leveraged and margined commodities transactions, a CFTC press release said.
Kanav Kariya announced his resignation amid reports of a pending investigation into Jump Crypto’s activities and several incidents dating back to 2022.
CFTC Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero could replace Martin Gruenberg after allegations of a toxic workplace culture at the FDIC.
The commodities regulator has been clear about the dangers of regulating a burgeoning industry through enforcement actions.
The Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act passed out of committee in July 2023 but could be headed for a full floor vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The CFTC warned of another cycle of enforcement actions against crypto firms as investor interest rises.
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Following a recent lawsuit against prominent crypto exchange KuCoin, Caroline D. Pharm, a Commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has warned that the agency may be infringing on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s authority in regards to securities trading. This development comes as both financial regulators continue the tussle over the control of […]
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Coinbase Derivatives filed for approval of a Dogecoin futures product amid rising interest in memecoin trading.
SEC-registered broker Prometheum could force the agency to decide if Ether is a security and CFTC chair Rostin Behnam says that could lead to conflicting rules.
The CFTC Chair was testifying on the regulator's 2025 budget request.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission wants U.S. policymakers to evaluate options for regulating the issue of identity information in decentralized finance, a report published Monday said.
The decentralized crypto exchange (DEX) is facing "inquiries" in the United States stemming from an October 2022 heist, according to posts in the project's Discord server. Now the DEX's governing body, called MangoDAO, is voting on whether to appoint a representative who can triage "U.S. regulatory matters" on its behalf.
The CFTC commissioner, in a year marked by an aggressive, sometimes arbitrary regulatory enforcement, stood out as an accommodator of innovation in the crypto sector.
The requests for public comment are standard for ETFs under review and have an open period of 35 days.
Crypto exchange Binance and its founder, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao will pay nearly $3 billion in fines to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to settling the regulator's lawsuit against it. The company is also settling with the U.S. Department of Justice and Treasury Department in parallel actions on Tuesday.