CFTC Advance notice of proposed rulemaking explores establishing a crypto spot market framework
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The report said that CFTC is exploring the use of existing authority to establish a crypto spot market framework and a voluntary federal registration pathway.
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U.S.CFTC The latest advance notice of proposed rulemaking seeks to use existing authority to establish a framework for the crypto spot market
PANews October 6 reported that, according to crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)'s latest advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) seeks to use its existing authority to establish a crypto market-structure framework for spot trading. The framework would be built on existing DCM、DCO and FCM registration frameworks and would create a new category called “crypto asset markets.” One significant difference from the Clarity Act is that the CFTC proposal is exploring a voluntary federal exchange registration pathway: spot exchanges that do not offer leverage could choose not to join the framework and retain their state money-transmitter licenses. Former CFTC Chair Giancarlo said this would provide exchanges with a “clear, voluntary pathway to a single federal rulebook” when customers trade using borrowed funds, adding that CFTC is acting within the authority granted by Congress in 2010...
Key points
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PANews said the news came from a report by crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett.
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The report said that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had recently issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM）。
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The notice seeks to use CFTC existing authority to establish a crypto market-structure framework for spot trading.
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The framework would be built on existing DCM、DCO and FCM registration frameworks and would create a new category called “crypto asset markets.”
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CFTC The proposal is exploring a voluntary federal exchange registration pathway.
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Spot exchanges that do not offer leverage could choose not to join the framework and continue to retain their state money-transmitter licenses.
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Former CFTC Chair Giancarlo said this pathway could provide exchanges with a “clear, voluntary pathway to a single federal rulebook” when customers trade using borrowed funds.
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Giancarlo said that CFTC is acting within the authority granted by Congress in 2010.
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This is a regulatory exploration described in an advance notice of proposed rulemaking. According to the report,CFTC seeks to add a framework for the crypto spot market to the existing registration system while allowing some spot exchanges that do not offer leverage to decide for themselves whether to adopt the federal registration pathway.
Why it matters to readers
If subsequent rules adopt this design, crypto spot exchanges could face a federal registration pathway, while platforms that do not offer leverage could still choose to maintain state-level licensing arrangements. The source text describes only a proposal under exploration; it cannot be taken to mean that the framework is already in effect.
For newcomers, the key point is that this is not a final rule that has already been implemented, but a framework under discussion by the regulator. Whether a platform offers leverage may affect whether it chooses to join the described federal registration pathway.
Risks and unknowns
The original text is a retelling by PANews of the journalist’s report and does not include the full text of the CFTC notice.
The source text is truncated at the end, so Giancarlo's complete statement regarding authority cannot be confirmed.
The original text does not confirm whether this framework will become a formal rule, its specific scope of application, or the conditions for implementation.
DCM、DCO and FCM The specific requirements within this framework are not stated.
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The formal definition of the new “crypto asset market” category is not stated.
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