Commodities Futures Trading Commission

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Posted by | April 16, 2024
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Charles Grassley Probe CFTC Chair About Alleged Ties With Sam Bankman-Fried

Two United States Senators are want answers from the Chair of the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over his connections to the disgraced founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried. In...

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Posted by | March 30, 2024
Litecoin Surges by Nearly 20% After US Regulator Refers to LTC as a Commodity in KuCoin Complaint

Litecoin (LTC) surged by nearly 20% over the past three days after the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) referred to the asset as a commodity in a legal complaint....

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Posted by | March 28, 2024
Digital Asset Traders Withdraw $208,000,000 Worth of Crypto From KuCoin Following Government Charges: Nansen

Crypto traders moved $208 million worth of digital assets off the embattled exchange KuCoin following the company’s indictment. The blockchain analytics platform Nansen reports that $99 million worth of crypto...

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Posted by | January 27, 2024
US Commodities Regulator Issues Warning About AI Scams Promoting Crypto Asset Trading Schemes

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a warning about artificial intelligence (AI) scams promoting false crypto opportunities and other frauds. The CFTC’s Office of Customer Education and...

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Posted by | December 20, 2023
Courts Approve $2,700,000,000 Binance Settlement With CFTC – CZ Will Personally Pay $150,000,000

A federal court has consented to a settlement between the US derivatives markets regulator and Binance. According to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal court has found Binance...

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Posted by | October 13, 2023
US Regulatory Agencies Launch Parallel Lawsuits Against Co-Founder of Bankrupt Crypto Lender Voyager

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have filed charges against the former CEO of Voyager, Stephen Ehrlich. In a statement, the FTC says it filed...

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Posted by | September 15, 2023
US Commodities Regulator Shouldn’t Launch Enforcement Actions Against DeFi Protocols, Says Coinbase CEO

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) shouldn’t be issuing warnings against decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. Last week, the CFTC announced that it charged DeFi protocols ZeroEx,...

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Posted by | March 29, 2023
CFTC Says Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin Are Commodities in Lawsuit Against Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao

The Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC) thinks Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Litecoin (LTC) are all securities, according to a new complaint. Earlier this week, the CFTC charged top crypto...

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Posted by | March 27, 2023
CFTC Goes After Binance and Changpeng Zhao With Lawsuit, Bitcoin (BTC) and Crypto Markets Get Rocked

The Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged crypto exchange Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) with a long list of regulatory violations, sending uncertainty through the digital asset...

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Posted by | August 4, 2022
Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) To Be Policed by CFTC Under New US Senate Proposal: Report

The push to regulate cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) forges ahead as a bipartisan bill has been submitted to the United States Senate. According to a new...

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