CFTC Orders Bitcoin Options Trading Platform Operator and its CEO to Cease Illegally Offering Bitcoin Options and to Cease Operating a Facility for Trading or Processing of Swaps without Registering Other enforcement

CFTC release 7231-15 · 2015-09-18 · view on cftc.gov ↗

Key facts

Release number: 7231-15
Release date: 2015-09-18
Type: Other enforcement
Primary source: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/7231-15

About CFTC enforcement

The CFTC charges market participants under the Commodity Exchange Act for spoofing, manipulation, fraud, wash trades, registration violations, and commodity-pool-operator misconduct. Most actions settle with restitution + civil money penalty + a bar/suspension. Crypto-asset cases have been a major share since 2019.