CFTC Says Sports Contracts Involve Gaming but Proposes to Allow Almost All of Them
The CFTC has proposed its first written framework for sports event contracts, formally defining sports markets as “gaming” – then writing definitions under which virtually everything currently traded on Kalshi and its ri...
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