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The CFTC has broadened regulatory relief so that firms supplying purely passive trading software no longer need to register as introducing brokers, opening a compliant path for crypto wallets and consumer apps to route users into regulated derivatives and prediction markets. The transmission channel is distribution and flow: lower registration friction expands the funnel of retail order flow into CFTC-regulated venues, a structural positive for listed exchange and brokerage intermediaries such as Coinbase and for prediction-market volume growth. Watch the precise scope conditions of the relief, specifically how narrowly passive is defined and whether any solicitation, routing incentive, or compensation arrangement voids it, since that boundary determines how many wallet operators can actually use it.
As a Policy signal, watch whether it changes price action, volatility, or flows around COIN, HOOD, ETH.
Original Source: Cointelegraph
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