WASHINGTON, April 24, 2026 — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it filed a lawsuit against the State of New York and submitted an amicus brief in Massachusetts as part of a broader effort to defend what it described as its exclusive federal jurisdiction over prediction markets.
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2026 — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against North Carolina resident Gannon Ken Van Dyke, alleging he engaged in insider trading on Polymarket using classified nonpublic information regarding a U.S. operation involving former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, according to a CFTC statement published Thursday.
WASHINGTON, April 10, 2026 — A federal court in Arizona granted a temporary restraining order requested by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission barring the state from continuing criminal enforcement proceedings against CFTC-regulated designated contract markets, according to a CFTC press release.
WASHINGTON, April 9, 2026 — Scott Bessent urged Congress to pass legislation establishing a federal regulatory framework for digital assets, writing that regulatory uncertainty is driving crypto development and investment outside the United States, according to Reuters.
WASHINGTON, April 9, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it has filed a motion in federal court seeking a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order to halt the state of Arizona’s efforts to apply criminal and gambling laws to CFTC-regulated prediction markets, according to a press release.
WASHINGTON, April 2, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it has filed lawsuits against the U.S. states of Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois, challenging actions taken against CFTC-registered designated contract markets and seeking to reaffirm its exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets, according to a CFTC press release.
WASHINGTON, April 1, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said a U.S. federal court has entered a supplemental consent order against Nishad Singh, and, together with a prior order, resolves the agency’s enforcement action against the former head of engineering at FTX, according to a CFTC press release.
WASHINGTON, March 30, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said a U.S. federal court has entered a consent order against Peken Global Limited, a company associated with the operation of the KuCoin exchange, for allowing U.S. participants to access its trading system without registering as a foreign board of trade, according to a CFTC press release.
WASHINGTON, February 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.
Bitwise Asset Management has filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed Bitwise Uniswap ETF, according to a filing published on the SEC’s EDGAR system on February 5, 2026.
