{"id":234890,"date":"2026-10-02T06:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T06:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=234890"},"modified":"2026-10-02T06:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T06:10:30","slug":"cftc-wants-event-contracts-defined-as-swaps-but-not-casino-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=234890","title":{"rendered":"CFTC Wants Event Contracts Defined as Swaps, but Not Casino Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sent the White House two rules that would redraw the legal definition of a swap. That definition is at the center of prediction markets\u2019 fight with the states. One rule would bring event contracts inside the definition, and the other would carve casino-style gambling out of it. While there [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sent the White House two rules that would redraw the legal definition of a swap. That definition is at the center of prediction markets\u2019 fight with the states. One rule would bring event contracts inside the definition, and the other would carve casino-style gambling out of it. While there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":234891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/234891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}