There has been much publicity around the cases that the U.S. Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) has brought against exchanges, such as Binance. Those cases, according to the CFTC, were meant to demonstrate that the CFTC would not tolerate digital asset exchanges that fail to register with the CFTC or comply with the agency’s rules concerning the derivatives markets. On May 13, 2024, the CFTC went one step further down the chain in, for…
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