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By Julie Binoche
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DraftKings' DKeX and the Federal Bet. DKeX isn't a sportsbook. It operates as a Designated Contract Market under CFTC oversight — which…
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CFTC Moves Toward Formal Rules. On May 26 — one day before the Spagnuolo charges dropped — the CFTC submitted a proposal for…
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Gambling Industry Pushes Back. Not everyone's happy about where this is heading. Bill Miller, President and CEO of the American…
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DraftKings moved fast. The company filed its first event contract templates with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on May 22, targeting sports-related markets through its…
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The filing didn't land in a vacuum. Just days later, on May 27, U.S. authorities charged Michele Spagnuolo — a Google employee — with insider trading on Polymarket.
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DraftKings is basically making a calculated call that the federal derivatives path is cleaner and faster than the state-by-state grind.
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The sports-related contracts DraftKings filed are just the first templates. No details yet on exactly which sports or events are covered.
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On May 26 — one day before the Spagnuolo charges dropped — the CFTC submitted a proposal for prediction market regulations to the White House, formally kicking off the federal…
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That's a shift worth paying attention to. For years, prediction market platforms grew by navigating court rulings and interpreting existing derivatives rules on their own.
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More context: CFTC Kicks Off Federal Rulemaking as Kalshi, Polymarket Face Compliance Squeeze
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And the Spagnuolo case almost certainly accelerates that rulemaking. Regulators now have a real case, with a real number attached, showing what happens when prediction markets…
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Not everyone's happy about where this is heading. Bill Miller, President and CEO of the American Gaming Association, has been vocal about the damage prediction markets could do…
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It's a legitimate concern. States depend heavily on gambling tax revenue, and tribal operations are often tied to exclusivity agreements that assume a certain competitive…
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But the $24 billion monthly volume figure suggests the market has already voted with its wallets.
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Read also: Google Engineer Faces DOJ and CFTC Charges Over $1.2M Polymarket Insider Trading Scheme
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