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The country's largest prediction market has been blocked from the US since 2022; a margin-trading filing with the CFTC is the first concrete step toward re-entry under a regulated wrapper.
The July 9 letter asks the CFTC to turn Phantom's March no-action relief into a broader, codified rule so any wallet can plug into registered derivatives venues without becoming a broker.
A derivatives license would let Polymarket's U.S. arm offer leveraged bets on events for the first time since a 2022 CFTC settlement, putting it on a regulatory footing with Kalshi.
The judge who set the XRP precedent is now drawing a line on prediction-market expansion, signalling that state gambling statutes still apply where federal CFTC oversight stops.
A 6% tax on net fee revenue resolves the state's standoff with federal derivatives oversight, but leaves other states still contesting where prediction-market jurisdiction actually sits.
If the CFTC greenlights Polymarket's rulebook amendment, prediction-market traders could open leveraged positions for the first time inside a regulated US venue, a structural shift for the segment.
A federal-event-contract license is not a state-arena pass: a $1B damages claim lets tribal and state plaintiffs drag any venue back into state court, even after Kalshi's CFTC win.
The CFTC lacks the quorum to chair the Clarity Act markup; the White House letter defends the slow nominee process, but the bill can't move without seated commissioners.
The joint letter is a coordination moment for the onchain-infrastructure thesis: regulated venues already want to plug into Hyperliquid-style rails, and they're asking the CFTC to bless the model…
The clarification signals the administration intends to fill the Democratic seats, but timing and nominees remain the open question for crypto policy clarity.
Selig's rare on-the-record rebuke of a self-certification by a systemically important venue is the actual story: CME now faces a stay and a public record on how it uses its own rule-making shortcut.
The CFTC's current framework assumes intermediaries that onchain protocols do not have, so applying broker and exchange rules to them is a category error that risks freezing US DeFi derivatives in…
The decision gives the President more power over independent regulators mid-rulemaking, and a former agency official is already calling the fallout unfortunate.
The market-structure bill hands spot crypto oversight to the CFTC, but a 21.5% FTE shortfall means the agency has to build a regulatory machine before it can run one.
The CFTC chair's framing turns the legislative delay from a procedural story into a structural one: which body writes the rulebook is being decided in real time.
The bill's path hinges on Democrats' ethics amendments tied to the Trump family's crypto ventures, with the Senate facing roughly 20 working days before recess.
A sitting CFTC chairman publicly drawing a hard line against a US central bank digital currency is the sharpest policy signal yet that the federal pivot is permanent, not partisan.
The push pairs influencer deals, MLB and CNN/CNBC partnerships, and a CFTC-supervised sports app, betting that mainstream visibility can offset a 2020 settlement and a 2024 CEO home raid.
SDNY Judge Torres ruled the CEA does not preempt state gambling law over Kalshi's sports-event contracts, putting the fight with regulators in the world's financial capital squarely in the loss…
A single operator, 60 retail victims, and a commodity pool the agency says never existed as advertised. The case is small in dollar terms but textbook in registration and reporting failures.
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