Tag: cftc
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New York sued Polymarket, and Polymarket sued New York back the same day
The state wants three times the company’s gains; the company says only Washington gets to decide what a prediction market is.
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The CFTC called bets on what people will say easy to rig, and stopped short of banning them
Prediction markets can keep listing mention contracts, but only where the person being bet on has a strong reason not to steer the result.
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The CFTC filed its own crypto rulebook two days after the Senate killed one
A prerule filing gets ten working days of White House review instead of ninety, and the agency’s only sitting commissioner is the one running…
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Kraken’s parent wants to bring a $85 trillion market onshore through Hyperliquid
Payward has a regulated route worked out for US perpetual futures on Hyperliquid, and a regulator that hasn’t said yes yet.
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The CFTC decided crypto wallets aren’t brokers, as long as they stay passive
One company spent months proving it doesn’t make trading decisions for anyone, and now every wallet like it gets the same pass without asking.