In less than four months, crypto has gone from being treated as a recurring enforcement headache in Washington to a market that federal regulators are structurally reorganizing around. A rapid sequence of formal committees, memorandums of understanding, interpretive releases, and… Read More »Inside Washington’s Quiet Power Shift on Crypto Regulation
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has quietly redrawn the line between crypto wallets and regulated derivatives markets. A March 17 no-action relief letter for Phantom wallet lets the app act as a consumer-facing interface for CFTC-regulated derivatives—without registering… Read More »CFTC Gives Phantom the Green Light: What Wallet-Based Access to Derivatives Really Means
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is moving to rein in insider-style trading and manipulation risks in prediction markets, a fast-growing corner of derivatives that now overlaps heavily with crypto-native platforms and retail trading apps. For crypto traders, prediction… Read More »CFTC Targets Insider Trading Risks in Crypto Prediction Markets
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is signaling that “true” Bitcoin perpetual futures could receive a US regulatory framework as soon as April, potentially pulling a large share of the $85 billion-a-day offshore derivatives complex onshore. For traders and market-structure… Read More »CFTC Eyes April Green Light to Onshore Bitcoin’s $85 Billion Perpetual Futures Market
The US Senate’s closest thing to a bipartisan crypto market-structure coalition has splintered just as draft legislation moves into a critical phase. Senate Agriculture Chair John Boozman has released updated bill text that preserves a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)–centric… Read More »Senate Crypto Alliance Fractures as Boozman Unveils Market Structure Bill, Leaving Developer Protections in Limbo