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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has launched a “crypto sprint” initiative to provide additional regulatory clarity for trading digital assets. CFTC Acting Chairman Caroline D. Pham says the initiative is for trading spot crypto asset contracts that are listed on CFTC-registered futures exchanges, known as designated contract markets (DCMs). “Under President Trump’s strong leadership and vision, the CFTC is full speed ahead on enabling immediate trading of digital assets at the Federal level in coordination with the SEC’s Project Crypto. There is a clear and simple solution the CFTC can implement now. The Commodity Exchange Act currently requires that retail trading of commodities with leverage, margin, or financing must be conducted on a DCM. Starting today, we invite all stakeholders to work with us on providing regulatory clarity on how to list spot crypto asset contracts on a DCM using our existing authority, as I have previously pro...

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The first half of 2025 has seen some profound shifts in the European crypto market shaped by evolving regulation, network innovation, and merchant behavior.  As a recent H1 2025 crypto payments report by CoinGate suggests, the swift rise of the USD Coin (USDC), largely propelled by the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, is at the center of this transformation. With the introduction of MiCA in late March, Tether (USDT) began vanishing from the payment rails in Europe due to regulatory uncertainty, allowing USDC to step in.  Indeed, MiCA-compliant and bolstered by multi-chain availability, USDC saw its transaction volume jump 337% year-over-year and now sits among the five most-used assets on CoinGate. Are stablecoins becoming mainstream? CoinGate’s data suggests that crypto payments are not merely surviving the new regulatory developments but evolving and gaining more mainstream ground. Sure, the impact of the MiCA’s framework was imme...