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“Cryptocurrency was supposed to break from the traditional financial system, and all of its fragility and vulnerabilities,” said Goldsmith Romero, who occupies one of the Democratic seats on the five-person commission that oversees derivatives trading. “However, this spring, unregulated crypto markets revealed their vulnerabilities to similar financial stability risks as
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Behnam made this remark while speaking at the Regulating Financial Innovation event on October 24, where he added that he thinks Gary Gensler, chair of the SEC, thinks otherwise or at least hasn’t certainly declared one or the other.Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Rostin Behnam has reaffirmed that Ethereum,
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Speaking at a panel discussion hosted by law firm Lowenstein Sandler in New York on Monday, Behnam said he gets “very irritated when folks start to talk about the CFTC as a more favorable regulator,” adding that his agency’s “greatest accomplishment” was its track record of crypto-related enforcement actions. Source
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Reports indicate that the bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) is facing more trouble from liquidators and financial authorities from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The whereabouts of the hedge fund’s co-founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davis are still unknown
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While the crypto industry has not tried to defend against the actual allegations – that the DAO, with its predecessor company, bZeroX, offered unregistered products to U.S. customers – it has collectively expressed concern about how the CFTC has gone about trying to bring a case against the DAO. Specifically,
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The Singapore-based Three Arrows filed for bankruptcy in July, saying its business had “collapsed in the wake of extreme fluctuations in cryptocurrency markets.” In particular, the hedge fund suffered huge losses stemming from the collapse of the TerraUSD algorithmic stablecoin in May. At the end of June, the Monetary Authority
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Considerable anxiety exists in the world of Web3 related to regulation and the legal status of cryptocurrency projects. It’s particularly apparent in the United States, where the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) fueled concerns in September with an announcement that it was imposing a $250,000 fine on a decentralized autonomous
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Gensler pointed out that the CFTC does not have direct authority to write rules for the firms that issue stablecoins. Source
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The CFTC sued Ooki DAO last month, alleging the collective group offered illegal leveraged and margin trading products, as had its predecessor company bZeroX. While the regulator settled the bZeroX charges with the company's founders, it was unable to identify key figures attached to the DAO, and sought permission to
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Behnam has been pursuing a much longer reach for his agency when it comes to crypto, asking Congress to give it power to oversee the spot market for digital commodity tokens. That’s a favored idea in more than one piece of legislation introduced this year, but the bills will likely
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