Regulation
Timely, impact-focused reporting on global crypto laws, enforcement actions, and policy shifts — helping traders and investors understand how new rules shape markets and digital assets.
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CFTC Begins Exploring Crypto Market Structure Rules Under Existing Authority
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 Seeks Comment on Listing of Compute Derivatives Contracts
WASHINGTON, August 19, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a request for comment on the listing of compute derivatives contracts as the agency examines an emerging derivatives market tied to the price of access to computing power, or compute, used in artificial intelligence.
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CFTC Resolves FTX Actions Against Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang
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
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
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
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
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.
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Coinbase Secures Abu Dhabi Approval for International Tokenized Securities Hub
ABU DHABI, August 11, 2026 — Coinbase has received Financial Services Permission from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Abu Dhabi Global Market, providing the regulatory foundation for its international tokenization hub in Abu Dhabi.
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CFTC Warns ‘American’ Odds May Mislead Event-Contract Traders
WASHINGTON, August 7, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s market oversight and market participants divisions warned regulated entities that using “American odds” to display event-contract prices is likely to mislead market participants, raising potential concerns under federal prohibitions on manipulative and deceptive practices.
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Circle Receives NYDFS Trust Charter
NEW YORK, July 31, 2026 — Circle Internet Group, Inc. announced Friday that the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has granted a limited purpose trust charter to Circle Internet Trust Company LLC, which will operate as Circle New York Trust.
