BTC Perpetuals Clear US Regulator Hurdle; Token Rules Stall
Trading infrastructure cleared an existing CFTC pathway in months, while token fundraising awaits an SEC system still being written.
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Trading infrastructure cleared an existing CFTC pathway in months, while token fundraising awaits an SEC system still being written.
The alignment he describes could reduce a key barrier to wider institutional participation in US digital-asset markets.
A 60-vote threshold in a 53-47 chamber leaves the bill short by default. The CFTC's parallel fallback plan keeps regulatory momentum alive regardless of how the floor math shakes out.
The dispute pits state gambling laws against federal oversight, while proposed consumer protections could shape whether event contracts expand across the U.S.
The $133M headline oversells the audience: 80% of Polymarket congressional markets have fewer than 100 wallets, and a tiny pool of capital sets the probabilities media and campaigns treat as public…
Selig is sketching a 'crypto asset market' category that, if finalized, hands every offshore perpetuals venue a concrete rulebook and potentially a US passport.
A 100M-contract TradFi incumbent, a fast-growing prediction platform, and the federal regulator publicly sparred in a CFTC committee room. The bill will eventually land on retail traders.
GPU rental futures from CME and ICE arrive just as miners pour hundreds of millions into AI data centers, but financing risk and equity dilution dwarf the compute-price swings these contracts…
The milestone highlights a CFTC-cleared route for U.S. traders into perpetual futures, a notable shift in access to crypto derivatives.
For institutions, agency action could offer a clearer US rulebook even if Congress leaves the CLARITY Act stalled.
Adams' warning casts US regulation as a competitiveness risk: founders who leave can give overseas DeFi rivals a speed advantage.
A compliant U.S. launch could put one of crypto’s biggest perpetual-futures venues inside the regulated American market, where registration and customer protections shape access.
The resolution puts individual accountability at the center of FTX's regulatory fallout and keeps executive conduct in focus after the exchange's collapse.
The filings push Kalshi from event contracts into TradFi-style equity and commodity proxies, while the CME-CFTC lawsuit over the May BTC perp approval still hangs over the timeline.
The 60-vote threshold on Sept. 15 is a real stress test. Even if Clarity stalls, the SEC and CFTC have telegraphed they'll keep rulemaking without it.
Polymarket's banking swap landed the same week the platform inched closer to a $20B+ IPO round. JPMorgan's continued interest in the IPO underwriting queue is the more interesting half of the story.
Crypto summits produce recommendations, not statute. The binding date on the calendar is September 15, when the Senate takes its first procedural vote on the Clarity Act, the market structure bill…
With the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act stalled in the Senate and Trump's personal crypto ties under ethics scrutiny, the optics of the White House sit-down carry real weight.
Whales absorbed 10M XRP daily while exchange supply hit a seven-year low, but weekly ETF inflows collapsed 93%, and the squeeze setup depends entirely on whether Washington delivers CLARITY by…
The agenda gives market participants a window into how US derivatives oversight is approaching software-led financial innovation.