The CFTC filed a joint movement with Gemini Trust Company on May 27 to vacate the consent order stemming from CFTC v. Gemini Trust Company LLC, the identical enforcement motion the company now concedes shouldn’t have been introduced. The movement caps off a years-long regulatory saga between the CFTC and the cryptocurrency alternate owned by…
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) requested data from Kalshi and Polymarket Friday as a part of a congressional investigation into potential insider buying and selling on prediction market platforms. The requests escalate rising bipartisan scrutiny over whether or not merchants could also be utilizing nonpublic data to revenue on prediction market platforms. The…
US senators spent two hours discussing the integrity of sports activities and sports activities betting on Wednesday, together with a deep examination of how prediction markets are concerned within the business. A Senate listening to on sports activities integrity put prediction markets underneath scrutiny as lawmakers questioned whether or not sports activities occasion contracts sidestep…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is suing Minnesota after the state handed laws that bans a number of main classes of prediction markets and criminalizes providing them. Gov. Tim Walz signed an omnibus public safety bill containing the prediction markets language on May 18. The new restrictions are scheduled to take impact Aug. 1. The…
Rep. Chris Pappas is asking House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer to subpoena inside data from on-line prediction market platforms, escalating congressional scrutiny over suspiciously timed trades tied to army motion, Iran struggle developments and international coverage selections. The request comes as lawmakers level to alleged prediction market income from nonpublic national-security data, whereas federal…
With New York’s legislative session getting into its closing stretch, state lawmakers are nonetheless urgent forward with efforts to regulate prediction markets, whilst parallel enforcement actions from Attorney General Letitia James and different state entities proceed to unfold. New York Sen. Joseph Addabbo confirmed to DeFi Rate that he plans to carry his prediction market…
A veteran lawyer navigating the playing regulation house mentioned prediction markets are in the “tail finish of the Wild West stage.” Troutman Pepper Locke accomplice Stephen Piepgrass informed DeFi Rate in a latest interview that regulation is starting to catch as much as the quickly increasing and evolving prediction markets business. That comes regardless of…
Key Takeaways ▸ Minnesota lawmakers revived the state’s prediction market ban after the Senate handed SF 4511, however the standalone effort confronted procedural obstacles within the House. Lawmakers as a substitute inserted almost similar language into an vital omnibus public security invoice. ▸ Conference committee negotiators unanimously adopted the prediction market provisions Friday, preserving alive…
Key Takeaways ▸ The CLARITY Act is gaining renewed momentum in Washington, with a July 4 deadline now on the desk. ▸ “It’s about giving the market permission to develop in the US,” mentioned Jason Rindahl, CEO at Nebula DeFi. ▸ A key flashpoint stays stablecoin yield, the place a bipartisan compromise is dealing with…
Key Takeaways ▸ Prediction markets present merchants are skeptical that Congress will move a inventory buying and selling ban this yr, at the same time as lawmakers introduce new proposals and increase restrictions into areas like prediction markets. ▸ Legislative efforts are shifting from banning insider buying and selling to proscribing participation altogether, with Sen….