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CFTC Announces Listed Spot Crypto Trading Initiative

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Coming on the heels of the CFTC's announcement of a Crypto Sprint to start implementing the recommendations in the White House digital asset report ("White House Report"), on August 4, 2025, the CFTC launched its first...more

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CFTC Launches Listed Spot Crypto Trading Initiative

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has launched its Listed Spot Crypto Trading Initiative, which aims to establish a framework for retail trading of leveraged, margined, or financed spot crypto asset contracts...more

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The CFTC’s DeFi Trifecta: Lessons and Implications for DeFi Participants Inside and Outside the US

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On September 7, 2023, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the settlement of three separate enforcement actions in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space: namely, concerning the Opyn protocol and its...more

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Expanding Regulatory Reach over Intermediaries That May Constitute Regulated Exchanges

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In response to changes in business practices, regulations and laws eventually change, too.  During the past few years derivatives markets are witnessing this change as it applies to trading facilities as well as to entities...more

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SEC and CFTC Signal Push for Broader Authority Over Digital Asset Markets

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently announced enforcement actions that reflected sweeping, and previously unarticulated, views of their respective...more

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DAOs in CFTC’s Enforcement Crosshairs

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On September 22, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) asserted its jurisdiction over a decentralized autonomous organization (“DAO”) and its founders, signaling for the industry that even an unincorporated...more

Cole Schotz

Cryptocurrencies And The Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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As previously discussed, there are quite a few regulatory schemes surrounding Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies. In addition to the FinCen Rulings, each State has its own regulations. The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”)...more

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Part 3: CFTC Finalizes Guidance on Digital Assets in the Context of Retail Commodity Transactions

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This is the third and final part of our update series on the CFTC’s recent Guidance related to the “actual delivery” of a digital asset for purposes of the retail commodity transaction provisions of the Commodity Exchange...more

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Part 2: CFTC Finalizes Guidance on Digital Assets in the Context of Retail Commodity Transactions

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The Regulation of Retail Commodity Transactions—History and Background - On March 24, 2020, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the Commission or the CFTC) finalized long-awaited interpretive guidance regarding...more

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CFTC Finalizes Guidance on Digital Assets in the Context of Retail Commodity Transactions

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On March 24, 2020, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the Commission or the CFTC) finalized long-awaited interpretive guidance regarding what constitutes the “actual delivery” of a digital asset in the context of...more

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