Key highlights: The CFTC has secured a ban preventing former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky from trading commodities in the US. The ban ends the CFTC’s case with Mashinsky and Celsius after nearly four years. Mashinsky is serving a 12-year sentence for committing securities and commodities fraud. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has ended its […]
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If you’re trying to pick between prediction markets, Polymarket and Kalshi are the two biggest names in 2026. They look similar on the surface, but they work in very different ways. Both let people trade on real-world outcomes, elections, inflation, Bitcoin, court cases, weather, headlines. But one is built around U.S. regulation and dollars, while […]
By admin New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against Gemini, alleging that the platform’s cryptocurrency-based prediction markets operate as illegal gambling under state law. The legal action highlights a rapidly intensifying jurisdictional clash between state gambling regulators and the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which has already granted Gemini licenses to […]