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PortuguêsDaniel Davis, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) general counsel, is joining Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, a law firm based in Chicago. Davis, who joined the CFTC in 2017 under…
Continue ReadingChris Brummer, a Georgetown University law professor who runs the annual D.C. Fintech Week conference, may be the next chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), according to Reuters.…
Continue ReadingBlackrock, the world’s largest asset manager with $7.81 trillion under management, is getting into bitcoin. The firm has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for two of…
Continue Reading100x Group, BitMEX’s parent company and the holding structure for its platform, has joined Global Digital Finance, or GDF, a major industry association advocating for the adoption of digital assets.…
Continue ReadingHello and welcome to State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter examining the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. I’m your host, Nikhilesh De. You’re receiving this newsletter because you either signed…
Continue ReadingStill facing a courtroom assault in the U.S. for allegedly facilitating money laundering, BitMex is trying to show regulators that it’s trying. On Jan. 12, the legally besieged crypto exchange…
Continue ReadingPaolo Ardoino, the outspoken chief technology officer of Bitfinex, took to Twitter this week to dispel concerns that Tether could be the next target of the United States Securities and…
Continue ReadingA group of leading U.S. financial regulators has released a new statement on stablecoins. One of the headlining topics of crypto regulation news this year, stablecoins were the main topic…
Continue ReadingThe crypto lobby seems to be cautiously optimistic about Biden’s potential picks to lead the U.S.’s regulatory environment. That is, at least, according to a Thursday discussion hosted by TRM…
Continue ReadingLabCFTC, the fintech-focused office of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has published a new intro to digital assets. The “Digital Assets Primer” is dated Dec. 15 but was announced Dec.…
Continue ReadingDecentralized finance (DeFi) and crypto governance are among a growing list of topics the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is watching in the digital asset space, the CFTC said in…
Continue ReadingMany overseas cryptocurrency exchanges would be happy to have U.S. traders as clients, but these days, American residents might as well have a sign around their necks reading “Danger: high…
Continue ReadingThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission is trying to make heads or tails of the recent explosion in decentralized finance. On Monday, the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee hosted a presentation called…
Continue ReadingYou could argue that the crypto industry should be crowdsourcing Blockstack’s legal expenses. Blockstack’s trailblazing work with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the initial coin offering (ICO) for its…
Continue ReadingIn a Dec. 10 public statement, Chairman Heath Tarbert announced that he will be leaving the Commodity Futures Trading Commission early next year. In listing accomplishments over the course of…
Continue ReadingCommodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Heath Tarbert announced Thursday he would resign early in 2021. The crypto-friendly regulator took office last year, and has overseen an expansion of regulated…
Continue ReadingThe public and private sectors should work closely together to bring about the future of money, according to a former leader of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Chris Giancarlo, a…
Continue ReadingBlockstack may be about to go where no token has gone before, by metamorphizing from a security to a non-security, as far as U.S. regulators are concerned. In a Monday…
Continue ReadingPer a Dec. 3 announcement, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s fintech team will become an independent office. Initially launched in 2018 under the guidance of Bill Hinman, the SEC‘s Strategic Hub…
Continue ReadingThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, is having a banner year in crypto enforcement. Per the commission’s annual review released on Tuesday, fiscal year 2020 featured seven monetary relief…
Continue ReadingU.S. crypto exchange Coinbase Pro announced today that customers would not be able to use margin trading on the platform beginning on Wednesday. According to the Coinbase blog, Chief Legal…
Continue ReadingCrypto exchange Coinbase plans to end all margin trading effective Nov. 25, 2020, due to recent regulations by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The San Francisco-based trading platform announced…
Continue ReadingIn October, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed enforcement actions against the entities and individuals that own and operate the Bitcoin Mercantile…
Continue ReadingA blockchain data platform has been selected the winner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s first science competition, offering yet another compelling sign that distributed ledger technology has burst onto…
Continue ReadingHedge fund manager Brian Kelly says the surging number of institutional investors owning bitcoin is down to the digital currency’s core value proposition- a fixed coin supply. On the other…
Continue ReadingEvery Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law. Editor’s note In the United States, as President Donald Trump stonewalls…
Continue ReadingBitMEX, one of the world’s biggest Bitcoin (BTC) trading platforms, continues to strengthen its Anti-Money Laundering measures in the aftermath of its criminal charges in the United States. According to…
Continue ReadingLess than four days after his official acceptance speech, Joe Biden has already begun assembling a team including the former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as part of…
Continue ReadingThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, recently approved a license modification for ErisX’s clearing house. The license amendment allows ErisX freedom to offer more trading products. “The significance of the…
Continue ReadingThe U.S. District Court of Colorado entered a judgment on behalf of the Commodity Futures and Exchange Commission (CFTC) against a Ponzi scammer on claims he and his company raised…
Continue ReadingEris Clearing LLC, the clearing arm of Eris Exchange, has won the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s blessing to provide clearing services for fully collateralized swaps in addition to its existing…
Continue ReadingThe 2020 U.S. presidential election will shape crypto policy for the next four years – even if no one’s actually pitching crypto-specific positions. While presidential candidates aren’t campaigning on their…
Continue ReadingPer guidance released Wednesday evening, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is advising businesses trading in crypto derivatives to hold customer funds very carefully. The new guidance continues the CFTC’s interest in…
Continue ReadingDigital Yuan Giveaway: China’s Shenzhen City Hands Out 10 Million Yuan in Central Bank Digital Currency A major Chinese city is giving away 10 million yuan in the country’s central…
Continue ReadingAs part of DC Fintech Week, a digital conference on the governmental side of the financial technology sector, several international leaders gathered for an Oct. 19 panel called: Central Banks, CBDCs…
Continue ReadingEthereum has faced a strong drop since the August highs of $490. The coin currently trades for $375, far below the aforementioned highs. The cryptocurrency remains in a fundamentally strong…
Continue ReadingThe Takeaway After the BitMEX enforcement action, are other noncompliant exchanges on the CFTC’s radar? “Maybe,” said Chairman Heath Tarbert. In an appearance Wednesday, the regulator largely deferred to his…
Continue ReadingCoinDesk is partnering with DC Fintech Week, one of the world’s premier policy and regulation-focused digital currency conferences, to produce a special edition of CoinDesk Live. The virtual event, which…
Continue ReadingSpeaking at the digital LA Blockchain Summit, Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman, Heath Tarbert, said U.S. regulation lags behind crypto and blockchain. “I would be the first to agree with you…
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