{"id":13128,"date":"2026-09-20T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/cftc-crypto-asset-rules-enter-white-house-review\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T05:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T05:00:46","slug":"cftc-crypto-asset-rules-enter-white-house-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/cftc-crypto-asset-rules-enter-white-house-review\/","title":{"rendered":"CFTC Crypto Asset Rules Enter White House Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>TL;DR<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A new CFTC crypto rulemaking has entered White House regulatory review.<\/li>\n<li>The filing covers \u201cCrypto Asset Transactions\u201d and \u201cCrypto Asset Markets.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>It is still at the pre-rule stage, so nothing has taken effect yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has moved a new crypto rulemaking into White House review, giving the market its clearest sign yet that the agency is preparing a broader framework for digital asset trading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs lists a CFTC submission under RIN 3038-AF80 titled <strong>\u201cRegulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets.\u201d<\/strong> The filing was received on September 17 and remains under review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That title is broad enough to matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CFTC already oversees futures, options and other derivatives markets, and crypto firms have spent years trying to work out how products such as perpetual-style contracts fit within the existing U.S. rulebook. A formal rulemaking could start turning some of those grey areas into something more concrete.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Important Bit Is The Stage<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not a final rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OIRA lists the submission as a <strong>pre-rule<\/strong> and its status remains pending. In practical terms, that means the proposal is still going through executive-branch review before the public sees the full shape of whatever the CFTC intends to put forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That distinction matters because regulatory headlines often get several steps ahead of the actual process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no new trading permission taking effect today, no fresh compliance deadline and no automatic change to how exchanges can offer derivatives to U.S. customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What has changed is that a formal agency rulemaking is now moving.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Crypto Firms Will Be Watching Closely<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CFTC has already spent much of 2026 dealing with crypto market structure in smaller pieces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, the agency issued guidance and no-action positions around crypto derivatives, perpetual-style products and registrant activity. A broader rulemaking under the banner of crypto asset transactions and markets could pull some of that work into a more durable framework.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For exchanges, brokers and derivatives venues, the details will matter far more than the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Questions around margin, eligible participants, exchange registration, clearing and the treatment of leveraged retail products could all determine whether more crypto derivatives activity can move into regulated U.S. venues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For now, though, the market is waiting on the actual proposal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OIRA review is a procedural step, but it is a meaningful one: it tells us the CFTC has moved beyond informal discussion and has a regulatory package far enough along to send into the White House review process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: U.S. Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reginfo.gov\/public\/Forward?Image61.x=0&amp;Image61.y=0&amp;SearchTarget=RegReview&amp;textfield=3038\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.reginfo.gov\/public\/Forward?Image61.x=0&amp;Image61.y=0&amp;SearchTarget=RegReview&amp;textfield=3038<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display:none\">This report is based on information released by Reginfo. at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reginfo.gov\/public\/Forward?Image61.x=0&amp;Image61.y=0&amp;SearchTarget=RegReview&amp;textfield=3038\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reginfo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR A new CFTC crypto rulemaking has entered White House regulatory review. The filing covers \u201cCrypto Asset Transactions\u201d and \u201cCrypto Asset Markets.\u201d It is still at the pre-rule stage, so nothing has taken effect yet. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has moved a new crypto rulemaking into White House review, giving the market its clearest&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3038,55,3858,5692,5494,5508],"class_list":["post-13128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency-market-news","tag-cftc","tag-cryptocurrency-market-news","tag-derivatives","tag-oira","tag-perpetuals","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}