U.S. House Set to Vote for First Standalone Crypto Market Structure Bill
The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to vote in favor of a crypto market structure bill as a standalone piece of legislation for the first time.
CFTC
Democrat House Leadership Says Crypto Bill Vote Won’t Be Whipped
Ranking members strongly oppose this bill as written, an email obtained by Politico reads, but will stop short of putting it to a whipped vote
Elon Musk Will Likely Remain Tesla CEO, and Tweet Non-Stop: Prediction Markets
Also: Trump faces likely conviction, per Polymarket punters; CFTC hearing to discuss political betting ban.
DeFi Identity Should Be Focus of U.S. Policymakers, CFTC Says
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.
Mango Markets Faces Regulatory ‘Inquiry’ Ahead of Eisenberg Crypto Fraud Trial
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.
CFTC Pushes FTX-Inspired Rule to Protect Customers’ Money
(Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
U.S. CFTC Approves Bitcoin Futures Platform Bitnomial’s Derivatives Clearing Application
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission granted crypto derivatives company Bitnomial approval to register as a derivatives clearing organization in the U.S., letting it settle margined futures and options contracts.
Binance, Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao to Pay $2.85B Fine in CFTC Settlement
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.
CFTC Denies Kalshi’s Plan to Let Users Bet on Control of U.S. Congress
Regulators said the plans weren’t in the public interest, after a court squabble involving rival service PredictIt
The Protocol: The CFTC Is Cracking Down on Crypto
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission placed a trio of decentralized crypto platforms into its crosshairs last week. An aggressive set of charges from the CFTC – which zeroed in on how the trading platforms handle certain kinds of third-party token swaps – contrasted with the regulator’s more lenient image.