#CFTCMovesToFoldEventContractsIntoSwapsRules On October 9, 2026, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) officially published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to expand the definition of "swaps" to include prediction market event contracts. This regulatory maneuver is designed to cement federal oversight over binary, yes-or-no contracts tied to real-world outcomes and directly counter attempts by state regulators to police them under local gambling laws. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The agency's dual-rule framework aims to draw a clear line between federally protected financial derivatives and ordinary gambling: [1, 2]
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