{"id":591283,"date":"2026-04-29T06:53:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/cftc-pulls-wisconsin-into-fight-over-prediction-market-jurisdiction\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T06:53:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:53:05","slug":"cftc-pulls-wisconsin-into-fight-over-prediction-market-jurisdiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/cftc-pulls-wisconsin-into-fight-over-prediction-market-jurisdiction\/","title":{"rendered":"CFTC pulls Wisconsin into fight over prediction market jurisdiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9wYXlsb2FkLmx1bS10cmkub3JnL2FwaS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy9maWxlL0hJJTIwTGF3bWFrZXJzJTIwQmlhcyUyQyUyMGltcG9ydGFudC5qcGc\/cHJlZml4PW1lZGlhJTJGYXJ0aWNsZS1jb3ZlcnM=.jpg\" alt=\"CFTC pulls Wisconsin into fight over prediction market jurisdiction\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sued Wisconsin in the agency\u2019s fifth lawsuit against a US state to assert jurisdiction over prediction markets.<\/p>\n<p>The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Tuesday sued the state of Wisconsin in the agency\u2019s latest effort to assert jurisdiction over prediction markets after the state sued multiple platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The CFTC said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/PressRoom\/PressReleases\/9220-26\">statement<\/a> that it filed the lawsuit against Wisconsin \u201cin response to the state\u2019s lawsuits against Kalshi, Polymarket, Crypto.com, Robinhood, and Coinbase, five CFTC-regulated prediction markets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStates cannot circumvent the clear directive of Congress,\u201d CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said. \u201cOur message to Wisconsin is the same as to New York, Arizona, and others: if you interfere with the operation of federal law in regulating financial markets, we will sue you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/cftc-sues-wisconsin-over-prediction-markets\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sued Wisconsin in the agency\u2019s fifth lawsuit against a US state to assert jurisdiction over prediction markets. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Tuesday sued the state of Wisconsin in the agency\u2019s latest effort to assert jurisdiction over prediction markets after the state sued multiple platforms. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-591283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}