CFTC News

“The defendants misappropriated, either directly or indirectly, all of the Bitcoin they accepted from the pool participants,” said the CFTC.

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The Celsius failure continues to draw regulator’s and the community’s attention to lending issues.

In an interview with The Financial Times, SEC chair Gary Gensler said he is working on a memorandum of understanding with the agency’s digital asset market co-regulator.

Hoskinson feels regulations for the crypto industry should be defined better, but that compliance should come from the industry itself, not from regulatory authorities.

An agriculture subcommittee heard a CFTC official, a law professor, a Chainalysis cofounder and Charles Hoskinson air their views on regulation and adjacent topics.

The senators introduced new approaches to familiar questions concerning digital assets and decided how to divide regulatory responsibilities.

A provision in the bill gives authority over some cryptocurrencies to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), with the agency head saying it cares about having “rigorous oversight of markets.”

The commission could be performing routine check-ups on the exchange in question or it could be looking for specific compliance violations to litigate against.

The lawsuit against Gemini is not about an exchange-traded fund — it’s about how a particular Bitcoin futures contract is being represented.

Bulls placed too much hope on $32,000 flipping to support, an error that is bound to show by Friday’s $800 million BTC options expiry.

The comprehensive new bill sorts out regulators and addresses taxes, environmental impact, security and other major questions surrounding digital assets.

The draft bill proposes to eliminate anonymous crypto projects, with DAOs, DeFi and exchanges required to legally register in the United States.

The SEC is reportedly suspicious that the world’s biggest crypto exchange sold unlicensed securities in its ICO, and the news agency tallied up some old cases.

The agency says the exchange gave false information in person and in documents in its 2017 bid to be among the first to offer Bitcoin futures contracts.