{"id":614281,"date":"2026-06-15T06:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/cftc-sues-new-mexico-over-prediction-market-jurisdiction\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T06:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:52:50","slug":"cftc-sues-new-mexico-over-prediction-market-jurisdiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/cftc-sues-new-mexico-over-prediction-market-jurisdiction\/","title":{"rendered":"CFTC sues New Mexico over prediction market jurisdiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CFTC<\/p>\n

New Mexico is the eighth state sued by the CFTC over prediction markets, as Gary Gensler doubted the regulators’ claim of authority over sports event contracts.<\/p>\n

New Mexico is the latest US state to be pulled into the Commodity Futures Trading Commission\u2019s legal fight for its jurisdiction over prediction markets after the state sued Kalshi for allegedly offering illegal sports betting.<\/p>\n

The CFTC said<\/a> on Friday that it sued New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, state Attorney General Ra\u00fal Torrez, and members of the New Mexico Gaming Control Board in federal court \u201cto block the state\u2019s efforts to apply state gaming laws against CFTC-registered contract markets.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Mexico sued<\/a> Kalshi on June 4, arguing the company is offering sports betting to residents without a license and that its sports event contracts function the same as traditional sports bets.<\/p>\n

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New Mexico is the eighth state sued by the CFTC over prediction markets, as Gary Gensler doubted the regulators’ claim of authority over sports event contracts. New Mexico is the latest US state to be pulled into the Commodity Futures Trading Commission\u2019s legal fight for its jurisdiction over prediction markets after the state sued Kalshi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":614282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-614281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614281","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=614281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}