CFTC Signals Support for Prediction Markets as State Pushback Intensifies

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As the debate over prediction markets in the United States intensifies, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) finds itself under increasing pressure to issue a definitive statement on the sector’s legal boundaries. While state regulators are taking an increasingly harsher stance against event-based contracts, the CFTS recently endorsed the tokenized financial infrastructure that underpins modernContinue Reading

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Here are the key events from day 1,371 of Russia’s war on Ukraine., Here are the key events from day 1,371 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Ukrainian soldiers ride a military buggy along a road near a front line in the town of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, onContinue Reading

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In January, Minnesota’s law regulating PFAS, a class of synthetic chemicals used to make products resistant to heat, grease, oil and water, came into effect. The statute, one of the strongest of its kind in the United States, banned the chemicals across 11 categories, from cookware to textile furnishings. BeginningContinue Reading

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More attacks in both countries despite peace efforts., More attacks in both countries despite peace efforts. Pakistan has been accused of launching air strikes that killed civilians in Afghanistan, a day after three Pakistani security personnel were killed in a bombing. Recent peace efforts and a temporary ceasefire have failed.Continue Reading