Election Coverage 2024

Election Coverage 2024

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Policy

Crypto PACs Dominate Ohio Senate Race, Spending $40M on Sherrod Brown's Foe

Crypto-fan candidate Bernie Moreno has caught up in Ohio polls as the industry's cash outpaces other PACs in one of the key U.S. Senate races that may decide the majority.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee who has so far spurned crypto legislation, faces on onslaught of $40 million in crypto cash backing his Ohio election opponent. (Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images)

Policy

Candidate Harris Unlikely to Make Full-Throated Crypto Policy Before Election: Source

Senior campaign officials are meeting with a select group of crypto insiders to hash out policy concerns, but those in the discussions aren't expecting a big splash before the vote.

Vice President Kamala Harris has started talking about crypto on the presidential campaign trail, but it may not go much deeper. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Policy

Harris Says Her White House Will 'Invest in America's Future' Which Includes 'Digital Assets'

The Democratic nominee promises she'll be a tech-friendly president in remarks to donors.

Kamala Harris (YouTube)

Opinion

Prediction Markets Go to Washington('s Appeals Court)

A federal appeals court will consider the CFTC's ongoing efforts to keep political prediction markets from launching.

(Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Policy

U.S. Election Betting: CFTC, Kalshi Both Grilled by Judges in Appeals Court

The agency appealed a lower court's decision to let the firm offer prediction markets on which party will control each house of Congress. Crypto firms are watching the case.

Kalshi is trying to launch U.S. political prediction markets ahead of the 2024 election. (Pete Kiehart for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Policy

U.S. CFTC Chair Behnam Says Regulator Will Keep Pursuing Kalshi Case

The U.S. derivatives regulator's legal battle with the prediction markets is currently winding its way through an appeals court.

CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Donald Trump Is Now a DeFi Enthusiast. Here’s Why It Matters

Trump’s new DeFi project may fail, as many do, but its launch, coming in the midst of a presidential campaign, is further proof that crypto has entered the mainstream, says Graeme Moore, head of tokenization at the Polymesh Association.

Donald Trump, center, pictured with sons Eric Trump, left, and Donald Trump Jr. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Markets

Crypto Project World Liberty Financial, Promoted by Trump Family, Confirms Plan for Token

Officials and advisors to the project confirmed, during a much-anticipated two-hour-plus Spaces on X, that the non-transferable governance token will be available under an SEC Regulation D exemption.

Eric, Donald and Donald Trump Jr. (Desiree Navarro/WireImage)

Policy

Even Temporarily Blocking Election Contracts Risks 'Irreparable' Harm, Kalshi Argues

Kalshi wants an appeals court to let it trade political prediction markets while the CFTC appeals its court loss.

Kalshi should be allowed to trade its political events contracts while the CFTC appeals its court loss, the company argued Friday. (Mike Stoll/Unsplash)

Policy

Kalshi's New Political Prediction Markets Halted as CFTC Appeals Loss

Contracts offered to U.S. customers on who will control Congress only traded a few hours before being halted pending the appeal.

(Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)