CFTC

The CFTC chair announced his departure from the agency effective Inauguration Day

We’ve come a long way, but lack of regulatory clarity for crypto in the US remains a major hurdle, industry leaders say

Kalshi founder Tarek Mansour said Thursday marked the “the first trade on regulated election markets in nearly a century”

Uniswap Labs has put one fire out by settling with the CFTC, but the real challenge may still be yet to come

Plus, does crypto need a city to call home?

Two CFTC Commissioners are over the so-called “regulation by enforcement” trend

The CFTC alleged that Uniswap Labs offered leveraged or margined retail commodity transactions illegally

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As part of the settlement, FTX and Alameda are banned from having any digital asset commodities, which include bitcoin, ether and USDT

The individual issuers are working with SEC staff to get registration statements approved, Gensler said

Humanity Protocol also announced a $30 million round, giving the Worldcoin competitor a $1 billion valuation

CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam said a growing crypto industry and lack of US laws is going to inevitably lead to more enforcement actions

The CFTC’s complaint classifies KuCoin’s “leveraged tokens” as digital asset commodity derivatives

The Department of Justice and Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced back-to-back lawsuits against KuCoin Tuesday

The CFTC is seeking “civil monetary penalties” against KuCoin

Bitcoin and ether are commodities, Behnam said, but if the SEC claims otherwise, things could get complicated

DeFi founders must be willing to embrace the full extent of decentralization in their own projects

The two are charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, wire fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice

It’s unclear what “actions” the CFTC, DOJ and Treasury will announce Tuesday afternoon

In a statement on Tuesday, Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero said crypto continued to attract a steady stream of fraud and illegal activity

The CFTC’s self-proclaimed campaign against DeFi puts the future of US innovation at risk

The bill, being floated as a “common-sense” approach, aims to “restore” transparency and “confidence” to the digital asset market, according to Rep. Beyer

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce joined Rep. Tom Emmer, former CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz and Blockchain Association CEO Kristin Smith to talk policy at Permissionless Monday

The CFTC can’t charge a protocol just because third parties used it to break the law, one commissioner says