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CFTC Official Warns Regulatory Frameworks are Falling Behind Digital Markets

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Alexander Covtun
September 5, 2026 19

WASHINGTON, September 3, 2026 — A senior Commodity Futures Trading Commission official warned during remarks at George Washington University that international regulatory frameworks are struggling to keep pace with increasingly interconnected, programmable and autonomous financial markets, pointing to gaps in supervisory cooperation, financial-stability oversight, global standard-setting governance and market safeguards.

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CFTC Begins Exploring Crypto Market Structure Rules Under Existing Authority

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Alexander Covtun
August 21, 2026 38

WASHINGTON, August 20, 2026 — Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael S. Selig said he has directed CFTC staff to explore rules for a crypto asset market structure under the agency’s existing authorities, laying out a potential regulatory route if Congress does not advance crypto market structure legislation.

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CFTC Resolves FTX Actions Against Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang

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Alexander Covtun
August 19, 2026 33

WASHINGTON, August 19, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has resolved its enforcement actions against former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and Alameda and FTX co-founder Gary Wang after a federal court entered supplemental consent orders setting out trading and registration restrictions and requiring their continued cooperation with the agency.

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SEC Proposes New Crypto Framework with $75 Million Offering Exemption

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Alexander Covtun
August 19, 2026 37

WASHINGTON, August 18, 2026 — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a new regulatory framework for certain investment contracts involving crypto assets, including registration exemptions for offerings of up to $75 million and a conditional safe harbor addressing when a crypto asset would no longer be subject to an investment contract.

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CFTC Staff Flags Deficiencies in Prediction Market Incentive Program Filings

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Alexander Covtun
August 15, 2026 42

WASHINGTON, August 12, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight issued an advisory on incentive programs for prediction markets after staff observed an increase in incentive-program rule filings relating to event-contract products, including filings that were procedurally or substantively deficient.

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CFTC Invokes Emergency Authority as New York Seeks to Halt Kalshi Event Contracts

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Alexander Covtun
August 15, 2026 42

WASHINGTON, August 11, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission invoked its emergency authority and ordered KalshiEX LLC to continue operating its exchange under normal practices and the Commodity Exchange Act’s Core Principles, escalating a jurisdictional dispute over New York’s attempt to apply state gambling laws to the federally regulated prediction-market operator.

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CFTC Alleges $397 Million Crypto Ponzi Scheme at Goliath Ventures

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Alexander Covtun
August 12, 2026 43

WASHINGTON, August 11, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued Goliath Ventures Inc. and founder and CEO Christopher Delgado, alleging the company operated a crypto Ponzi scheme that collected at least $397 million from approximately 1,611 customers while falsely claiming their assets would be deployed to liquidity pools on decentralized exchanges.