CFTC Moves to License Crypto Exchanges Offering Leverage
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has set out plans to bring crypto exchanges that offer leverage to retail traders under federal oversight. The agency published an advance notice of p
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has set out plans to bring crypto exchanges that offer leverage to retail traders under federal oversight.
The agency published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, the earliest formal step towards new rules, covering two linked frameworks: Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets. It is asking for public comment before it drafts the rules themselves.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has initiated a rulemaking process aimed at establishing new regulations for crypto asset transactions involving leverage, margin, or financing
In September 2026, Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher who had spent the prior three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned and published a resignation thre
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has opened a public comment period as part of an ongoing crypto rulemaking process, inviting market participants, exchanges, token projects, and inves