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Massad to CFTC: Prediction markets aren’t your game

Timothy Massad speaks at a House Financial Services Subcommittee meeting in February 2025.
Timothy Massad. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

The former CFTC Commissioner did not mince words in a letter to the agency, arguing that it had “lost its way” in its attempt to grab control over the explosively popular sector.

Former Obama-era CFTC Commissioner Timothy Massad penned a comment letter to the CFTC in which he argued its attempt to wrest regulatory control over prediction markets from states threatened to transform the CFTC into a national gaming regulator.

The main thrust of his argument was that the CFTC is using

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