About
The CFTC is dedicated to advancing regulatory clarity, market integrity, and responsible technological progress across the new frontier of finance.
To future-proof the CFTC for tomorrow’s innovations, the agency aims to ensure that the Commission’s regulatory framework remains clear, coherent, and adaptable, ensuring that innovation takes root on American soil, under American law, and in service of American investors, customers, and businesses.
- Responsible Innovation
Consistent with the Commission’s mandate, the CFTC supports an approach that promotes responsible innovation while preserving core protections against fraud, manipulation, and systemic risk.
The CFTC seeks to foster a regulatory environment where responsible innovation and technological advancements can thrive within the agency’s long-standing principles-based regime. Key goals include:
- Promoting market integrity and resilience
- Providing legal and regulatory clarity
- Enhancing U.S. market competitiveness
- Reshoring American innovators
- Innovation Focus Areas
The agency is focused on three core innovation themes:
- Crypto Assets & Blockchain Technologies
- Artificial Intelligence & Autonomous Systems
- Prediction Markets & Event Contracts
- How We Work
Through public roundtables, written input, the Innovation Advisory Committee, and industry engagement, the CFTC aims to develop insights that will help inform Commission policy, interpretation, and rulemaking considerations. Please contact the Innovation Task Force at [email protected] or by requesting a meeting with the Task Force via the Related Links.
Innovation Tracker
| Date | Document | Description |
| 07/24/2026 | Advisory on Self-Certification of an Event Contract Series | The CFTC's Division of Market of Oversight issued an advisory addressing concerns about the practice of submitting broad, template-style certifications that combine many potential event contract variations into a single certification, and as a reminder to designated contract markets about the procedures for submitting self-certifications of an event contract series.
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| 06/25/2026 | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Parts 15, 16, and 17) | The CFTC published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking public comment on amendments to CFTC Regulations Parts 15, 16, and 17 for an alternative framework for reporting of data for certain event contracts, which would require reporting markets, futures commission merchants, clearing members, and foreign brokers to report certain event contracts pursuant to Parts 15 through 18 of the CFTC Regulations. |
| 06/16/2026 | Request for Information: Identifying Regulations To Facilitate Innovation and Competition to Financial Products and Services for Fintech Firms | The CFTC issued a Request for Information (RFI) to assist in identifying regulations and regulatory items that impede fintech firms from entering into partnerships with federally regulated institutions, as well as items that could be amended to streamline application processes for fintech firms. The RFI will also help the Commission in identifying regulatory items that could be updated to facilitate innovation and competition for fintech firms. |
| 06/10/2026 | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Regulation 40.11) | The CFTC published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking public comment on amendments to CFTC Regulation 40.11 and the addition of Appendix F to part 40. |
| 05/29/2026 | Coinbase Interpretive and No-Action Letter | The CFTC's Market Participant Division issued an interpretative position in response to the request from a registered futures commission merchant (Coinbase Financial Markets. Inc.) to categorize Deribit Perpetuals as foreign futures. MPD further issued a no-action position to the request regarding digital commodities and payment stablecoins deposited to margin customer positions with a foreign broker under circumstances where the foreign broker has obtained a right of re-use over the customer-owned assets. |
| 05/29/2026 | Policy Statement Concerning the Listing of Perpetual Contracts | The CFTC issued a statement to make clear that, given the unique characteristics of perpetual contracts, which tend to vary based on the underlying asset they reference, the Commission is of the view that the case-by-case review process detailed in Commission Regulation 40.3 is appropriate for the listing of perpetual contracts that reference asset classes that are not contemplated in the Order.
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| 05/29/2026 | Order: BTCPERP Contract | The CFTC issued an Order for Approval to KalshiEX, LLC for the listing of the BTCPERP Contract, a perpetual contract that references the spot price of bitcoin, as a futures contract pursuant to Commission Regulation 40.3.
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| 05/29/2026 | 24/7 Trading, Clearing and Settlement Advisory | CFTC staff issued an advisory to set forth expectations with respect to DCMs, SEFs, and DCOs who are seeking to extend trading and/or clearing operations to a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week basis as well as FCMs seeking to intermediate such operations on a 24/7 basis.
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| 04/10/2026 | Press Release | The CFTC announces members of the Innovation Task Force.
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| 03/20/2026 | FAQs Relating to Crypto Assets and Blockchain Technologies | The CFTC's Market Participant Division and Division of Clearing and Risk respond to FAQs concerning registrant and registered entity activities relating to crypto assets and blockchain technologies under the Commodity Exchange Act. |
| 03/17/2026 | Application of the Federal Securities Laws to Certain Types of Crypto Assets and Certain Transactions Involving Crypto Assets | The CFTC joined the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the issuance of an interpretation clarifying how the federal securities laws apply to certain crypto assets and transactions involving crypto assets. The CFTC further provides guidance the CFTC and its staff will administer the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) consistent with the SEC’s interpretation, and that certain non-security crypto assets could meet the definition of “commodity” under the CEA.
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| 03/17/2026 | Phantom No-Action Letter | The CFTC's Market Participant Division issued a no-action position, subject to certain specified conditions, on introducing broker (IB) and associated person registration for Phantom Technologies Inc., a developer of self-custodial crypto asset wallet software that proposes to provide and market software to facilitate trading by its users with registered futures commission merchants and IBs and designated contract markets.
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| 03/12/2026 | Prediction Market Advisory | The CFTC's Division of Market Oversight (DMO) issued a staff advisory regarding prediction markets and seeks to encourage growth and innovation in these markets while reminding designated contract markets of their regulatory obligations pursuant to the Commodity Exchange Act and Commission regulations. DMO believes that, as front-line regulators, DCMs should take proactive steps to ensure their markets continue to evolve in a manner that complies with the CEA and Commission regulation.
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| 03/12/2026 | Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Prediction Markets) | The CFTC published an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) seeking information and public comment on statutory core principles and Commission regulations that apply to prediction markets, the types of event contracts that may be prohibited as contrary to the public interest, cost-benefit considerations related to prediction markets, and other topics. |
| 02/06/2026 | No-Action Letter | The CFTC's Market Participant Division re-issued a previous no-action letter to expand the definition of "payment stablecoin" to specify that a national trust bank may be a permitted issuer of a payment stablecoin for purposes of the no-action position regarding digital assets accepted as margin collateral.
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