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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s new framework for leveraged crypto trading may not be finalized before the 2028 presidential election, and TD Cowen analysts say that timing puts the whole effort at risk.

Bitcoin Magazine New York Sues Polymarket, Calling Prediction Market an Illegal Gambling Operation

The cryptocurrency news this week moved faster than the charts. The CFTC sent its crypto rules to the White House on September 17, per The Block. That was two days after the Clarity Act failed in the Senate by one vote.

Kalshi has filed with the SEC and CFTC on September 18 to list U.S. stock and ETF-linked perpetual futures, proposing 23-hour weekday trading and a 15.50% minimum customer margin. Kalshi filed stock perpetual rules with regulators, while CFTC approval remains pending after September 18. Proposed contracts would trade from Sunday evening through Friday, with daily…

The heads of two federal financial regulators said on Sept. 16 that their agencies would proceed with crypto rulemaking under existing authority, after the US Senate voted against advancing the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act the previous day.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission plans to build its own regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies using authority already granted under current law.

Trade groups and executives responded to the Senate blocking the CLARITY Act by pointing at agency rulemaking, saying the SEC and the CFTC can keep writing crypto rules without the bill. Several framed the loss as one of permanence, since a future agency chair can rewrite a rule and repealing a statute takes another act…

On Wednesday, September 2, 2026, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a motion in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, seeking the dismissal of CME Group’s lawsuit challenging the agency’s approval of cryptocurrency perpetual futures. The CFTC characterized CME’s legal challenge as “much ado about nothing,” asserting that the exchange…