{"id":635151,"date":"2026-07-26T17:53:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/cftc-issues-second-warning-to-prediction-markets-on-cookie-cutter-self-certifications\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T17:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:53:50","slug":"cftc-issues-second-warning-to-prediction-markets-on-cookie-cutter-self-certifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/cftc-issues-second-warning-to-prediction-markets-on-cookie-cutter-self-certifications\/","title":{"rendered":"CFTC issues second warning to prediction markets on cookie-cutter self-certifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/hi-prediction-market-cftc-rule.png\" alt=\"CFTC issues second warning to prediction markets on cookie-cutter self-certifications\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the second time this year, the regulator told prediction markets to stop issuing overly broad, template-style certifications of events contracts.<\/p>\n<p>For the second time this year, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a warning to prediction markets operators to follow the rules when creating contract certifications that operators consider cover a broad swath of events contracts.<\/p>\n<p>The CFTC, which claims to be the primary regulator of prediction markets, on Friday issued an advisory clarifying that, notwithstanding ongoing policy discussions and proposed rulemaking concerning prediction markets, the markets retain the ability to certify event contracts as compliant with the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC regulations without prior commission approval, subject to the statutory framework governing self-certification.<\/p>\n<p>The agency on Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/PressRoom\/PressReleases\/9273-26\">warned<\/a> about the number of instances of events contracts that are \u201cself-certified\u201d by the platforms under the agency\u2019s jurisdiction \u201cwithout supplying the terms and conditions of each proposed permutation and a concise explanation and analysis with respect to the product\u2019s terms and conditions, the underlying commodity, and the product\u2019s compliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/cftc-issues-second-warning-to-prediction-markets-on-cookie-cutter-self-certifications\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time this year, the regulator told prediction markets to stop issuing overly broad, template-style certifications of events contracts. For the second time this year, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a warning to prediction markets operators to follow the rules when creating contract certifications that operators consider cover a broad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":635152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-635151","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\/635151","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=635151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}