The CLARITY Act Rewrite Now Splits DeFi Into Two Classes
The revised CLARITY Act splits DeFi into two legal classes and aims CFTC registration at protocols that only look decentralized, days before a Senate vote.
The revised CLARITY Act splits DeFi into two legal classes and aims CFTC registration at protocols that only look decentralized, days before a Senate vote.
Coinbase filed to bring single-stock perps to US traders and shares rose 10 percent, but the filing names no date, no stocks, and faces a CME lawsuit.
The CFTC closed its FTX cases against Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang with a five-year trading ban and no fine. An $11.02 billion forfeiture still stands.
Kalshi's August 18 CFTC filing prices a copper perpetual off a Pyth oracle instead of COMEX, and CME is suing over the approval path behind it.
The SEC scrapped its own crypto vote and the Senate punted the CLARITY Act to a September cloture clock. Polymarket now prices 2026 passage near 21%.
FlightAware is suing Kalshi over flight-cancellation markets it says use its data without permission. The case tests who controls the settlement source behind every prediction market.
Nasdaq is acquiring LeveL Markets to advance its always-on markets strategy. The deal quietly absorbs the one structural argument crypto has made since 2009.
The SEC stayed Nasdaq bitcoin options after a CME petition. The contract settles on a CME CF benchmark, and statements are due August 24.
Regulators blew the GENIUS Act deadline and CLARITY odds fell to a record 31%. Both halves of crypto's Washington trade slipped in one week.
ICE, owner of the NYSE, and crypto exchange OKX launched a 50-50 venture, led by Andrew Cuomo, to give 120 million users access to ICE futures and tokenized NYSE stocks. Wall Street is now building the rails itself.
Kalshi's annualized revenue crossed $2 billion, triple its November mark, and it is in early talks with banks about an IPO. The catch: the regulated status driving the bull case is the same one under attack in court.
In one week, CME sued the CFTC over perps, Oman made its national Bitcoin mining pool mandatory, and China advanced a SWIFT rival. Three layers, one pattern: states and incumbents claiming crypto's rails.
A new Bitget Wallet and Polymarket report shows monthly prediction market volume hit $25.7 billion in March, up from $1.9 billion a year earlier. Retail users drove over 80% of the activity, and the average user is now active four times more often than they were three months ago.
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Dropped lawsuits, new ETFs, a token taxonomy, and a joint framework with the CFTC. Paul Atkins delivered almost everything the crypto industry asked for. But prediction markets just landed on his desk as an unresolved jurisdictional fight.
Attorney General Letitia James wants triple damages, customer restitution, and a ban on under-21 wagering. Coinbase stock fell 6% as the lawsuit landed.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has become one of the most consequential regulators in crypto, with jurisdiction over derivatives, event contracts, and a growing share of the digital-asset market that Congress may formally hand it. This tag tracks enforcement actions, the fight over prediction-market and event-contract oversight with Kalshi and Polymarket, the federal-state preemption battles against gambling regulators, the push to onshore decentralized markets like Hyperliquid, and the market-structure bills that would expand CFTC authority over spot crypto. Coinliva covers the cases, the commissioner decisions, and the turf war between the CFTC and the SEC that will shape which agency ultimately governs the industry.