CFTC proposed two crypto rules creating a narrower exchange license for leveraged, margined and financed trades, open to comment for 60 days. Plain spot trading falls outside the CFTC's authority, and officials say they cannot yet size that leftover market.
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Better Markets says the CFTC lacks the mandate to police leveraged retail crypto under the plan it floated on October 5. Its harder objection for the agency to answer is legal: the group says the statute the CFTC relies on was written for leveraged precious-metals fraud.
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Better Markets wants the CFTC to bar exchanges from trading on their own platforms, citing an agency count of six that already do. The figure shows the practice exists, though an arms race would need an earlier count and a total to measure.
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CFTC's October 5 notice suggests retail crypto counts as delivered within 28 days only if the customer holds the private keys. That preliminary test would decide whether coins kept on exchange books fall under rules the agency has not yet proposed.
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The New York Times greenlit, designed and staffed Hard Fork over about a year before it launched. What moves to NPR is three of the people who made it, plus a standing disclosure that one host's fiance works at Anthropic.
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The administration attacked effective altruism by name on Monday. For a lab selling to the Pentagon, its donor list and its employees' giving are now part of how it presents itself in Washington.
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Coinbase reports $228 million of cumulative volume across ten equity tokens on Base, with one early day close to half that total. Alpaca holds the underlying shares under Abu Dhabi oversight, and Regulation S keeps US persons out.
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Caroline Ellison now works full time on technical infrastructure and operations at Manifund, a nonprofit grant platform that says it has raised $17.2 million across 486 projects. Her SEC bars run for a decade.
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Bankman-Fried is asking the Supreme Court to treat the FTX estate's recoveries as evidence about the crime itself, an argument the Justice Department says is beside the point and one the Court almost never agrees to hear.
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The August 28 ruling keeps a bankrupt exchange's account on the annual filing even when the holder cannot withdraw, and with the 500 million won floor unchanged and acquisition-cost rules unpublished, the documentary burden sits with the filer.
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ETH's first high since November 2021 came from a Powell rate-cut hint, not from the chain: nearly 15% in a day against Bitcoin's 4%. The ratio is what holders now own.
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The CLARITY Act's split of SEC and CFTC oversight finally has a date. The vote forecast behind it, and the polling, come from an exchange CEO who wants the bill passed.
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