News with the tag "Commodities Futures Trading Commission"

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has pushed back against Super Bowl event contracts launched by the exchange Crypto.com and the retail betting market Kalshi. The retail trading giant Robinhood announced on Monday that it planned to roll out a prediction market for the Super Bowl ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reportedly issued a subpoena to American crypto exchange Coinbase as part of an ongoing probe of the decentralized prediction market platform Polymarket. In a post on social media platform X, Ethereum ( ETH )-focused website EthHub co-founder Eric Conn...

The crypto exchange Gemini has agreed to pay the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) a $5 million civil penalty to end the regulator’s lawsuit. The CFTC filed a complaint against Gemini back in 2022, alleging the exchange made false and incomplete statements to the agency in connection ...

A new animal-based memecoin is surging to start the week, as Coinbase adds the crypto asset to its listing roadmap. Moo Deng ( MOODENG ), a crypto asset honoring the baby hippo who became an international sensation, soared 108% as the top US crypto exchange made the announcement . The Solana-based m...

Litecoin (LTC) surged by nearly 20% over the past three days after the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) referred to the asset as a commodity in a legal complaint. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the CFTC unsealed an indictment against the crypto exchange KuCoin a...

Crypto traders moved $208 million worth of digital assets off the embattled exchange KuCoin following the company’s indictment. The blockchain analytics platform Nansen reports that $99 million worth of crypto flowed off the exchange on Ethereum (ETH) and $108 million on Ethereum Virtual Machine (EV...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a warning about artificial intelligence (AI) scams promoting false crypto opportunities and other frauds. The CFTC’s Office of Customer Education and Outreach (OCEO) says scammers have been falsely promoting the potential of AI technolo...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have filed charges against the former CEO of Voyager, Stephen Ehrlich. In a statement, the FTC says it filed a suit against Ehrlich for falsely claiming that Voyager accounts were insured by the Federal Deposit Insura...

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) shouldn’t be issuing warnings against decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. Last week, the CFTC announced that it charged DeFi protocols ZeroEx, Opyn and Deridex for offering illegal derivatives trading. The reg...

The CEO of Coinbase is calling for support of legislation that would establish clear guidelines for the digital asset industry. In a new announcement, Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong urges his Twitter audience to email their legislators to vote yes on the Financial Innovation and Technology...