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Kalshi plans to end a program that pays traders based on volume nearly a year early, as the CFTC reviews incentive schemes across the industry and Chairman Michael Selig weighs possible action this week.

Interested parties and stakeholders can provide perspective on rules that address event contract categorization and exemptions to swap classification.

Hyperliquid Policy Center wants the SEC to clarify airdrops, token resales and state registration requirements in its proposed Regulation Crypto Assets.

A CFTC staff advisory says contracts on a person's words or attendance may be presumed open to manipulation, so exchanges must justify their safeguards. It is not a rule or ban.

Kalshi’s self-certification of gold and silver perps raises the stakes of The CME Group’s legal challenge to the CFTC’s regulation of futures.

New Jersey asked the Supreme Court to review its loss to Kalshi, days after the Ninth Circuit ruled the opposite way for Nevada on whether sports contracts are swaps.

Kalshi suspended and fined Laurie Buckhout, a candidate for North Carolina's 1st Congressional District, for trading on markets tied to her own race.

Polymarket US self-certified contracts on AI computing costs as the CFTC seeks comment on how such derivatives should be listed, with Kalshi, CME and ICE also building markets.

At the CFTC advisory committee's first meeting, executives backed federal oversight and consumer safeguards but clashed over self-certification, manipulation and allowed contracts.

Kalshi removed its sports announcer mention markets as the CFTC reportedly examines whether they are too easy to manipulate, though similar contracts remain live.

Limits and timeouts are already live in Novig’s app as Ludlow Exchange files broader standards covering marketing, contract design and behavioral monitoring.

The CFTC declared New York’s attempt to potentially shut down the prediction market exchange a “market emergency,” escalating the federal/state fight over event contracts.

Kalshi, Polymarket and other exchanges backed contract-by-contract review in comments on the CFTC's proposed rule but split on sports, combos and self-certification.

In comments to the CFTC, sports leagues and player unions sought betting-style safeguards, including limits on injury, officiating and some player-specific markets.

The CFTC approved Florida startup JuiceX as an exchange, and job listings suggest a sports-leaning retail launch clearing through Polymarket Clearing.

Comments on the CFTC's proposed prediction market rule show Kalshi-aligned users, sports-data firms, tribes, state lawmakers and consumer advocates split on sports contracts.

Players’ Lounge is embedding ProphetX sports contracts without registering as a derivatives intermediary, using a model Phantom and other firms want federal regulators to formally allow.

Witnesses at a House hearing clashed over whether sports event contracts are derivatives or gambling, as lawmakers raised youth access, manipulation and CFTC capacity.

A House subcommittee heard testimony from financial industry professionals on the CLARITY Act as time draws short for the United States Senate to take up the legislation.

Underdog launched UDX, the rebranded Aristotle Exchange it bought in March, after self-certifying its first sports contracts and setting fees and a market-maker program.