On April 9, 2025, the Markets Participants Division and the Division of Market Oversight (collectively, the “Divisions”) of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) published a Staff Letter (the “Staff Letter”)...more
Last month, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced settled charges against three decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols for various registration and related violations under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA)...more
10/16/2023
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Bitcoin ,
CFTC ,
Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) ,
Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) ,
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ,
Default Judgment ,
Digital Assets ,
Enforcement ,
Ethereum ,
Investigations ,
Settlement ,
Stablecoins ,
Swap Execution Facilities
Binance is the latest major crypto industry player to be sued by a U.S. regulator. On March 27, 2023, the CFTC announced that it had filed a civil enforcement action against Binance Holdings Limited (and related legal...more
4/7/2023
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Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Commodities-Backed Swap ,
Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) ,
Crypto Exchanges ,
Cryptoassets ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ,
Derivatives ,
Digital Assets ,
Disgorgement ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Injunctions
On January 3, 2022, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) entered an order charging Blockratize, Inc. (d/b/a Polymarket.com) (“Polymarket”) with offering off-exchange binary options contracts and failing to...more
1/21/2022
/ Blockchain ,
Cease and Desist Orders ,
CFTC ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Popular ,
Registration Requirement ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Smart Contracts ,
Statutory Violations ,
Swaps ,
Trading Platforms