U.S. CFTC seeks event contract definitions that may defy states' gambling claims

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Users and operators in prediction markets are the immediate audience for these filings, because the rules sit in review while the legal lines around event contracts are being drawn. State regulators and market participants will notice that the CFTC is pressing for a federal definition that reaches event contracts and leaves casino-style gambling products outside it.

In practice, the filings would change where event contracts sit under federal rules by placing them in the swap category, while the separate interim rule would keep casino-style gambling products out of that category. What has not changed yet is the legal status of the proposals themselves, since they remain pending and are not final rules. (per tokenpost.com)

Still open is how the White House review will treat the two proposals and how the related court fight over prediction markets and gambling claims will fit with them. The filings show the text sent to OIRA, but they do not settle whether either rule will be adopted in its current form.

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