Trump Backs CFTC Exclusive Power Over Prediction Markets
The president's directive signals federal preemption of state-level prediction-market crackdowns — and ties crypto protection directly to U.S. industrial policy.
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The president's directive signals federal preemption of state-level prediction-market crackdowns — and ties crypto protection directly to U.S. industrial policy.
The remark lands while Binance's $4.3B settlement with DOJ and Treasury still shapes its compliance posture — a founder publicly naming the regulatory gamble he says he'd never repeat.
The statement extends the administration's year-long policy turn from enforcement-first to industry-protectionist, with executive-branch backing now framed as a national competitiveness question, not…
President Trump has publicly endorsed CFTC Chair Selig's effort to broaden the agency's authority over prediction…
The president's Truth Social post lands as the CFTC defends its jurisdiction in multiple federal suits — and as Spain, India and Indonesia move to block the same platforms abroad.
The remark is rhetorical posturing ahead of a potential diplomatic flashpoint, with no policy or market signal attached — Iran has not agreed to any terms.
When the three majors all lag while long-tail names like HYPE, ZEC, and VVV lead, the rotation itself becomes the story — and it's a bearish read on L1 value accrual.
TD Cowen's Washington policy team has assessed that a comprehensive crypto market structure bill is unlikely to clear…
The Digital Chamber told the OCC that Warren's reading of the National Bank Act is wrong — and that the charters for Ripple, Circle, Coinbase, Paxos, Fidelity and BitGo reflect the OCC's longstanding…
The first use of Regulation 17A against crypto venues — not the $90B A7 figure — is the structural beat: every UK-regulated exchange now has a precedent for tracing multi-hop blockchain transactions.
The move extends the UK sanctions toolkit from TradFi into on-chain venues — Bitpapa, EXMO, Aifory, Rapira, and Garantex's EU arm all hit, with Elliptic calling it a structural first.
A 64,000-person island just executed the first credible sovereign-grade onchain economy pilot — airdropping USDC to citizens, taking crypto at the DMV, and rewriting property law for smart contracts.
Spain's gambling regulator has blocked access to Polymarket and Kalshi, citing the platforms' failure to hold the…
Even with a clean market-structure bill, Form 1099-DA forces retail users to manually reconcile fragmented cost-basis data across exchanges, wallets and DeFi — a friction tax that scales adoption…
The 56M shares plus 29M convertibles are the source of funds, not the trade. The real question is whether DJT sells its BTC into weakness to defend its own equity — or waits.
A third-party multisig module — not Squid's own contracts — was the attack surface, and the $6M raise from Ripple's $3M slot becomes a painful backdrop rather than a marquee win.
The exchange once blocked by Manila regulators now has an in-principle sandbox approval, routed through a local fintech — a path back into a market the SEC had previously closed.
Veteran gold bug and longtime Bitcoin critic Peter Schiff has taken another swing at MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor…
It's the first time the UK has used its crypto-specific Regulation 17A against an exchange, a structural signal that goes well beyond one venue in a small token's market cap.
Cardano's founder is pivoting full-time back to crypto after his $250M Wyoming clinic closes July 31, just as a 32.9M ADA IOG treasury request tracks under 30% approval with days left to vote.