{"id":25469,"date":"2025-05-06T18:47:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=25469"},"modified":"2025-05-06T18:47:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:47:39","slug":"cftc-drops-appeal-in-kalshi-election-betting-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=25469","title":{"rendered":"CFTC Drops Appeal in Kalshi Election Betting Case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has dropped its appeal in its case against Kalshi, a New York-based prediction market, according to a Monday court filing, finally clearing the way for the platform to offer political event contracts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Under the conditions of the motion for voluntary dismissal<\/a>, which is still subject to court approval, both parties will pay their own legal costs and Kalshi waives any right to sue the CFTC for the litigation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“Today is historic. We have always believed that doing things the right way, no matter how hard, no matter how painful, pays off. This result is proof of that,\u201d Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour said in a statement. \u201cKalshi’s approach has officially and definitively secured the future of prediction markets in America.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Kalshi\u2019s fight with the CFTC began in 2023, when the regulator denied Kalshi\u2019s plan<\/a> to let users bet on which party would control the chambers of Congress. At the time of the denial, the CFTC \u2014 then under the leadership of former Chair Rostin Behnam \u2014\u00a0claimed that such contracts involved unlawful gaming and were \u201ccontrary to the public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

That November, Kalshi sued the CFTC<\/a> in Washington, D.C., claiming that the CFTC had overstepped its authority in attempting to block the contracts, and asking a judge to vacate the decision. The court sided with Kalshi<\/a> in September 2024, clearing the way for the platform to list the political contracts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Immediately after losing the case, the CFTC scrambled to undo the district judge\u2019s decision. It applied for a 14-day stay of the order \u2014\u00a0basically, a two-week delay on Kalshi\u2019s ability to list the contracts while the CFTC prepared for an appeal \u2014\u00a0and was denied. Then, it filed an appeal, reiterating many of the same arguments it had used in its original defense.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

However, shortly after oral arguments in early January, U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office. His eldest son, Don Jr., joined Kalshi as a strategic advisor on January 13. Rob Schwartz, the CFTC\u2019s general counsel at the time the appeal was filed, left the agency in April after withdrawing from the case in March.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Under the leadership of acting Chair Caroline Pham, the agency has changed its approach<\/a> to crypto, cutting several pieces of crypto-related guidance and narrowing down its once-wide variety of enforcement task forces down to just two, in an effort to simplify its regulation and enforcement of the crypto industry.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has dropped its appeal in its case against Kalshi, a New York-based prediction market, according to a Monday court filing, finally clearing the way for the platform to offer political event contracts. Under the conditions of the motion for voluntary dismissal, which is still subject to court approval, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-25469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}