On August 3, four Senators from the Agriculture Committee introduced legislation to establish a regulatory regime for cryptocurrencies. The Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act of 2022 would es...
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Bitcoin, Ether To Be Regulated as Commodities by CFTC, per New Senate Bill
New Senate bill clarifies that the SEC should only oversee securities The legislation specifically names bitcoin and ether, but notes that other commodities should fall under CFTC regulation If a grou...
US Senate introduces bill to put CFTC in charge of regulating Bitcoin, Ethereum
Leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee introduced a bill on Aug. 3 to make the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) the chief regulator of digital assets that are commodities. The CFTC cur...
New Senate Bill Seeks To Regulate Bitcoin And Ethereum Under The CFTC ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Two top-ranking members of the U.S Senate Committee have proposed legislation that could see Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other digital assets fall under t...
CFTC Would Become Primary Crypto Regulator Under New Senate Committee Plan
The committee held a hearing on the issue in February that included Behnam, as well as industry experts such as Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the FTX crypto exchange; Perianne Boring, a crypto industr...
New Bipartisan US Bill Puts CFTC In Charge Of Regulating Bitcoin And Ethereum
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Bitcoin, Ethereum Could Become Commodities Under New CFTC Bill
Key Takeaways A bipartisan group of senators on the Senate Agriculture Committee has put forward a new bill for identifying and classifying “digital commodities” that would place them under the jurisd...
U.S. Senators seek to grant CFTC control over crypto regulation
While financial authorities around the world are looking for opportunities to control the cryptocurrency sector, a United States Senate committee is planning to propose a bill that would place digital...
Former CFTC Chair Showed Concerns on European Union’s MiCA Bill
Markets in Crypto Assets Bill of the EU is considered to be around crypto markets and hence creates concerns. Crypto Regulations are one among several perennial concerns of people within crypto ...
CFTC Investigating $1.7 Billion Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed charges against a company in South Africa and its head executive for allegedly running the biggest crypto-based Ponzi scheme in recorded ...
Pantera’s general counsel joins CFTC staff as commission work recenters around crypto
A former legal leader from the crypto world is joining the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). On July 26, CFTC Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero announced that she has hired Joseph Cise...
‘I Don’t Believe in Any Kind of “Gotcha” Regulation,’ CFTC Commissioner Says on SEC Insider Trading Case
“I believe that anything that might impact or implicate the CFTC’s jurisdiction, it’s our job to go in there to enforce the law, and to make sure that we’re prosecuting wrongdoing,” Pham said on CoinD...
CFTC Announces New Tech Innovation Office to Oversee Crypto
The regulator which could soon be responsible for more of the US’s crypto oversight is beefing up its technology team, the agency’s chief said on Monday. The Commodities and Futures Trading Commission...
CFTC poaches Pantera Capital’s legal counsel, citing digital asset experience
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner Goldsmith Romero cited Joe Cisewski’s experience in digital assets as a key reason behind onboarding him as chief of staff and senior counsel. ...
Approach to Crypto Regulation is More Proactive: CFTC Chair
The Chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has revealed that the commission is more than ready to commit to regulatory oversight of the digital currency ecosystem as...
CFTC will evolve LabCFTC hub into Office of Technology Innovation
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is considering its role in crypto oversight in the framework of regulators, and it’s taking action by retooling its office devoted to connectin...
CFTC chair advocates for restructuring for better regulations
The US Commodity Futures Commission (CFTC) is set to restructure its operations to achieve proactiveness and become more comprehensive in regulations. The CFTC is the regulatory agency tasked with reg...
CFTC Chair expects crypto to be a ‘part of mainstream American portfolios’
The cryptocurrency sector is expanding at an unprecedented rate, and top executives in financial institutions and regulatory agencies are starting to recognize its growing role in today’s society, inc...
CFTC will remodel LabCFTC, education office to increase regulatory efficiency
The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the regulatory agency that shares primary crypto regulatory responsibility with the Securities and Exchange Commission, will undergo rest...
US CFTC to Intensify Crypto Work With New Tech Innovation Office
The agency’s LabCFTC, a long-running fintech team, will be transformed into the new office, which will be led by a director that reports to Behnam, he said in remarks prepared for a Brookings Institut...
CFTC commissioners speak up after SEC files crypto insider trading case
Members of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) stressed the need for more regulatory collaboration after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lodged a digital assets insider tradin...
SEC Attacks Coinbase Over Alleged Securities, CFTC and the Exchange Disagree
On the 21st of July, the US Department of Justice indicted Ishan Wahi – a former Coinbase manager, along with his brother and a third individual – on insider trading charges. This was a historic first...
Bill Giving CFTC Crypto Powers Could Go to Vote This Year
Bitcoin may soon see new legislation that would define the asset class as a commodity, leaving years of legal uncertainty behind it. A bipartisan congressional attempt to grant authority over the cryp...
CFTC ends case against the deceased McAfee’s pump-and-dump schemes by fining former bodyguard
The US civil cases against the elusive and now deceased John McAfee have come to an end. On July 18, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced a settlement and injunction against Jimmy Gale W...
For First Time, CFTC Cracks Down on Crypto’s ‘Pump-and-dump’ Schemes
CFTC charged Jimmy Gale Watson, Jr., an associate of the late John McAfee, $144,736 The scheme resulted in profits in excess of $2 million, the CFTC alleged in the complaint The Commodity Futures Trad...
The CFTC Is Practically Begging to Regulate Crypto
The ongoing crypto crash has caused the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to boost calls for regulation. The CFTC Wants to Oversee Crypto Activity Back in 2014, then chairman of the CFTC Tim...
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Fraudulent Bitcoin Commodity Pool Worth $1.7B Investigated by CFTC
Mirror Trading International Proprietary Ltd has been alleged by the CFTC. Steynberg claims that MTI’s algorithms provide a 10% monthly ROI. According to a statement released Friday, U.S. regulators h...
US CFTC unveils the largest ever charge involving Bitcoin
The trade goods Futures commerce Commission (CTFC) is charging a South African trading company victimization Bitcoin (BTC) as its base currency for allegedly running the largest-ever BTC trading schem...
CFTC Slaps Company CEO With Record $1.7 Billion Bitcoin Fraud Charge
The CFTC might have caught the “biggest fish” in the ocean. And there could be more out there. The U.S. commodities watchdog announced Friday that it had lodged a civil suit against a South African CE...
CFTC drags South African to court over $1.7 billion scam
The Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has dragged a South African and his company to court over breaching some regulations. According to the filed charges, the regulator alleges that the c...
CFTC Unveils $1,700,000,000 Bitcoin Trading Scheme Allegations in Largest-Ever Charge Involving BTC
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CTFC) is charging a South African trading company using Bitcoin (BTC) as its base currency for allegedly running the largest-ever BTC trading scheme. Accordin...