Regulation

Shield containing an infinity symbol, representing the CFTC's interpretation of certain crypto perpetual contracts as foreign futures and its no-action position on digital asset margin collateral

CFTC Staff Confirms Certain Crypto Perpetuals as Foreign Futures

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WASHINGTON, May 29, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Participants Division issued an interpretation confirming that certain crypto-asset perpetual contracts offered on Deribit FZE may be categorized as foreign futures under Commission Regulation 30.1 and issued a no-action position regarding the posting of customer-owned digital commodities and payment stablecoins as margin collateral for certain foreign futures and foreign options positions.

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CFTC Sets Regulatory Expectations for 24/7 Trading and Clearing Operations

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WASHINGTON, May 29, 2026 — Staff of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Clearing and Risk, Division of Market Oversight, and Market Participants Division issued an advisory outlining regulatory expectations for designated contract markets, swap execution facilities, derivatives clearing organizations, and futures commission merchants seeking to extend trading and clearing operations to a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week basis.

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CFTC Charges Google Employee in Polymarket Insider Trading Case

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WASHINGTON, May 27, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Wednesday it filed a civil enforcement action against a Google employee accused of using confidential internal search-trend data to trade event contracts on prediction-market platform Polymarket, in a case that adds to U.S. regulatory scrutiny of blockchain-based event markets.

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SEC Proposes Broad Registered Offering and Public Company Reporting Reforms

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WASHINGTON, May 19, 2026 — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday proposed sweeping amendments to the rules governing registered securities offerings and public-company reporting requirements, in what the agency described as a major effort to modernize the U.S. public capital markets framework and reduce regulatory burdens on issuers.

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CFTC Sues Minnesota Over State Prediction Market Ban

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WASHINGTON, May 19, 2026 — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Tuesday sued the state of Minnesota to block a newly enacted law that would criminalize the operation of prediction markets, marking an escalation in a growing federal-state jurisdictional conflict over event contracts and federally regulated derivatives markets.