WASHINGTON, March 17 — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Tuesday, in a press release, that it joined an interpretation issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission clarifying how federal securities laws apply to certain crypto assets and transactions involving crypto assets.
WASHINGTON, March 17 — Staff at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said Tuesday they would not recommend enforcement action against Phantom Technologies Inc., a developer of self-custodial crypto asset wallet software, in connection with the company’s proposed provision and marketing of software designed to facilitate derivatives trading through registered intermediaries and trading venues, according to a CFTC press release.
WASHINGTON, March 14 — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced March 12 that it is seeking public comment on whether new regulations or amendments may be needed to govern event contracts traded on prediction markets.
WASHINGTON, March 11 — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Wednesday they had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to guide coordination and collaboration between the two agencies and support lawful innovation, market integrity, and investor and customer protection.
WASHINGTON, March 2, 2026 — Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael S. Selig said former federal prosecutor David I.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said its Division of Enforcement has issued an advisory following the public release of two enforcement matters involving misuse of nonpublic information and fraud in prediction markets, also known as event contracts, traded on KalshiEX, a Designated Contract Market.
Washington, Feb. 17, 2026 — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit explaining that Congress granted the Commission exclusive jurisdiction over commodity derivatives markets under the Commodity Exchange Act, including event contracts commonly referred to as prediction markets, according to a CFTC press release.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2026 — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Participants Division issued Staff Letter No. 26-05, a no-action position stating that staff will not recommend enforcement action regarding futures commission merchants that accept certain non-security digital assets, including qualifying payment stablecoins, as customer margin collateral and take those assets into account for undermargined determinations and segregation calculations, or deposit the FCM’s own payment stablecoins as residual interest, subject to specified conditions.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Participants Division has reissued Staff Letter 25-40, updating the definition of “payment stablecoin” under its no-action framework to expressly include stablecoins issued by national trust banks, the agency said.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has withdrawn its proposed rulemaking on event contracts and rescinded a related staff advisory addressing sports-based event contracts, the agency said.
