Acting CFTC chair confirms push to launch leveraged spot crypto trading on regulated exchanges — TradingView News
Caroline Pham, acting chair of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), confirmed a report from CoinDesk that the agency is in direct talks with regulated exchanges to launch spot crypto trading, including leveraged offerings, as soon as next month.
Pham confirmed the report in a post on X, writing, “True,” in reference to the CoinDesk report published Sunday morning, even as the federal government shutdown delays other crypto policy initiatives.
According to the report, Pham has held talks with CFTC-regulated designated contracts markets (DCMs) exchanges, a list that includes finance giants CME, Cboe Futures Exchange, and ICE Futures along with crypto-native firms like Coinbase Derivatives and prediction markets Kalshi and…
