Key Highlights New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing Polymarket of operating an unlicensed gambling business in violation of state law. The complaint alleges Polymarket avoided licensing requirements and taxes that fund public schools, youth sports, and problem gambling treatment, while allowing users aged 18 to 20 ...
Key Highlights The CFTC issued a staff advisory warning that “mention markets” — betting on what a specific individual might say or do — are “presumptively readily susceptible to manipulation.” The regulator distinguishes these markets from standard event contracts because outcomes depend on “the discrete conduct of a named person” rather than independently generated, externally ...
Key Highlights The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reviewing unusual trading patterns on Kalshi involving nearly one million ether perpetual futures trades clustered around $5,500, representing over $5 billion in volume. Kalshi denies wash trading allegations, attributing the pattern to market makers maintaining fixed resting orders and hundreds of distinct traders participating in the transactions. ...
Key Highlights BitGo Research analysis indicates the SEC’s CLARITY Act vote and CFTC fallback will significantly reshape Bitcoin’s competitive positioning against other digital assets. Regulatory uncertainty between the SEC and CFTC is creating mixed market signals and may influence institutional whale behavior and wallet movements. Traders are advised to monitor SEC updates on the CLARITY ...
Key Highlights The failure to pass the Clarity Act leaves U.S. crypto regulation to be shaped by agencies rather than Congress, with the SEC and CFTC moving forward on separate rulemaking tracks. The SEC issued a temporary conditional exemption allowing eligible venues to trade tokenized U.S. stocks via permissioned liquidity pools on public blockchains. The ...
Key Highlights Analyst Beni alleges wash trading on Kalshi’s ether perpetual market, citing repetitive $5,500 trade sizes accounting for up to 58% of volume across four days as “undeniable proof” of manipulation. The allegations center on a CFTC-filed rebate schedule allowing Self-Clearing Members to trade at net-zero fees via a 0.3-basis-point maker rebate offsetting a ...
Key Highlights Strategy founder Michael Saylor contends the Senate’s failure to advance the Clarity Act benefits the digital asset industry by avoiding restrictive legislative provisions. Despite the legislative setback, the SEC and CFTC are independently advancing rulemaking, including conditional relief for onchain trading of tokenized securities. The Clarity Act fell one vote short of cloture ...
Key Highlights The Clarity Act would have granted the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) full supervisory authority over crypto commodity spot markets, including Bitcoin and Ethereum trading. The legislation aimed to define regulatory buckets for blockchain-native assets, curb illicit finance, and provide limited legal protections for decentralized finance (DeFi) software developers. With the bill stalled, ...
Key Highlights The CFTC has submitted a two-part crypto regulation proposal (RIN 3038-AF80) to the White House OIRA, outlining frameworks for “Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions” and “Regulation Crypto Asset Markets.” The proposal introduces a new “crypto asset markets” exchange category for spot trading digital commodities like Bitcoin and XRP under CFTC oversight, though final rules ...
Key Highlights BitMine Chairman Tom Lee asserts cryptocurrency market rally can continue despite CLARITY Act failing to advance in U.S. Senate Lee emphasizes real user and investor demand outweighs single regulatory outcomes for crypto market trajectory Ethereum remains preferred institutional blockchain platform; switching to alternatives creates unnecessary technical and operational risks CLARITY Act Stalls But ...
Key Highlights The Clarity Act, a leading legislative effort to establish a comprehensive U.S. cryptocurrency market framework, failed a procedural Senate vote this week. The CFTC submitted a new regulatory proposal to the White House Office of Management and Budget on September 17, now under interagency review by OIRA. CFTC Chair Michael Selig directed staff ...
Key Highlights CFTC Chair Mike Selig signals readiness to finalize rules for digital asset derivatives markets following Wednesday’s commission vote. The CFTC issued a no-action letter allowing software providers to connect users to regulated derivatives markets without registering as introducing brokers. Relief covers passive software enabling market viewing and order submission through crypto wallets, with ...