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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has broadened a no-action position so that any developer of “passive software” that lets users trade crypto derivatives no longer risks enforcement as an unregistered broker, according to a CFTC press release published September 17. The move extends an earlier March letter that applied only to a single self-custodial wallet…

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Binance’s failed Greek MiCA bid has returned to scrutiny after The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 18 that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde personally pressed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis against approving the exchange’s application.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a five-year conditional exemption on Thursday letting tokenized National Market System (NMS) stock trade on permissioned automated market makers (AMMs), and Commodity Futures Trading Commission staff opened introducing-broker relief to passive software providers across the industry the same morning. Both actions came two days after the Senate blocked the…

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