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CFTC Official Warns Regulatory Frameworks are Falling Behind Digital Markets

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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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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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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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CFTC Staff Flags Deficiencies in Prediction Market Incentive Program Filings

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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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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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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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CFTC Warns ‘American’ Odds May Mislead Event-Contract Traders

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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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CFTC Orders George Santos to Pay $35,000 Over Manipulative Event Contract Trading

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WASHINGTON, July 31, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has ordered former U.S. Congressman George Anthony Devolder Santos to disgorge $17,569.98 in profits and pay a $17,500 civil monetary penalty after the agency found that he engaged in manipulative conduct in connection with trading a Kalshi event contract tied to his attendance at the 2026 State of the Union.

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CFTC Staff Advises Exchanges Against Broad Template Certifications for Event Contracts

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WASHINGTON, July 24, 2026 — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight (DMO) issued an advisory Friday reminding designated contract markets (DCMs) that Broad Template Certifications for event contracts should not be submitted under Commission Regulation 40.2(a).