Kalshi and Coinbase Win Partial Illinois Ruling on Sports Contracts
A federal judge in Illinois found state licensing rules likely conflict with federal derivatives law in a case involving Kalshi and Coinbase over sports contracts. The ruling left transaction fees unresolved and ordered the parties to propose injunction terms.
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Users and firms around prediction markets notice that Illinois licensing rules are now in a partial conflict with federal derivatives law in this dispute over sports contracts. That leaves the state-side licensing question unsettled for the moment, while the federal court process continues with injunction terms still to be proposed.
In practice, the case changes what the parties can ask the court to settle right now: the licensing issue received a partial ruling, but transaction fees did not. The next step is still to propose injunction terms, so the order does not close out the dispute.
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| 17 days ago | Former Georgia Banker Charged Over Alleged $931,500 Coinbase Transfers event | 1 actors in common · 2 news media |